"For more than 10 years, the 1947 Partition Archive, a Berkeley-based non-profit, has interviewed, documented and preserved eyewitness accounts from all ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the violent Partition of British India in 1947. A grassroots organization, they have now archived more than 10,000 memories-the title of a recent glossy hardbound volume. Inspired by the book, a new exhibition, "10,000 Memories: Partition, Independence, and WWII in South Asia," debuts this week at the Los Altos History Museum and runs through May 24,"
""We wanted to take this opportunity to warm people up to the true story of colonization," said Guneeta Singh Bhalla, director of the 1947 Partition Archive. "It's really not taught in a comprehensive manner in the United States." As a result, we learn about different colonizer countries-France, Britain and the Dutch, especially-all of whom competed with each other. The British East India Company rose to the forefront, becoming essentially the first massive multinational corporation,"
The 1947 Partition Archive has collected and preserved more than 10,000 firsthand accounts from diverse ethnic, religious and economic communities affected by the 1947 Partition of British India. The Los Altos History Museum hosts an exhibition featuring those first-person narratives alongside photographs and multimedia storytelling, running through May 24 before traveling statewide. The exhibition situates Partition within larger South Asian history, tracing colonization by European powers, the rise of the British East India Company as an early multinational, and the post–World War II decline of the British Empire that led to decolonization and the Partition.
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