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<div>{{short description|Indian author and historian (born 1990)}}<br />
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{{Infobox writer<br />
| name = Aanchal Malhotra<br />
| image = <br />
| occupation = [[Author]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1990}}<br />
| birth_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
| period = 2017 – present<br />
| genre = [[Indian History]]<br />
| notableworks = {{plainlist|1=<br />
*''Remnants of a Separation'' (2017)<br />
*''Remnants of Partition'' (2019)<br />
}}<br />
| website = {{url|aanchalmalhotra.com}}<br />
}}<br />
'''Aanchal Malhotra''' is an [[India]]n author and historian, best known for her work on oral history and material culture of the [[Partition of India]] in 1947.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Malhotra was born in [[New Delhi]] in 1990. She received a [[BFA degree|BFA]] in Traditional Printmaking and Art History from [[Ontario College of Art & Design]], Toronto, where she won the University Medal and Sir Edmund Walker Award for Graduate Studies. She completed a MFA in Studio Art from [[Concordia University]], Montréal.<br />
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She belongs to the family of Bahrisons Booksellers, founded by her paternal grandfather, Balraj Bahri in 1953 in New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/article/719693/how-bahrisons-delhi-has-been-romancing-books-since-1953|title=How Bahrisons Delhi has been romancing books since 1953|last=Malhotra|first=Aanchal|website=Scroll.in|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Precious Past|newspaper=The Citizen|url=https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/7/17302/The-Precious-Past|first=Himini|last=Sharma|date=July 23, 2019}}</ref><br />
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== Writing ==<br />
Aanchal Malhotra's debut book, ''Remnants of a Separation : A History of the Partition through Material Memory''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory|last=Malhotra|first=Aanchal|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2017|isbn=978-9352770120|pages=1–3}}</ref> was published by [[HarperCollins]] India in 2017, to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence. The project (under the same name) initially began as her MFA dissertation at Concordia University, Montréal, and includes field research in India, Pakistan and England.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-november-17-2019-1.5359967/the-stories-objects-tell-what-survivors-of-the-partition-of-india-took-with-them-1.5359970|publisher=CBC|title=The stories objects tell: What survivors of the Partition of India took with them|date=November 15, 2019}}</ref> It is an attempt to revisit the Partition through personal and intimate objects that refugees carried with them across the border during their migration.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/remnants-of-a-separation-a-history-of-the-partition-through-material-memory-review-tangible-memories/article21225280.ece|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|title=Tangible memories: Tales through objects from across the bloodied border|first=Lalitha|last=Sridhar|date=December 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The National|url=https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/five-heart-wrenching-books-that-explore-the-partition-of-india-1.899190|title=Five heart-wrenching books that explore the partition of India|first=Aarti|last=Jhurani|date=August 18, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Sanyal|first=Devapriya|date=October 2019|doi=10.1080/09584935.2019.1689670|issue=4|journal=Contemporary South Asia|pages=564–564|title=Book review: ''Remnants of a separation''|volume=27}}</ref> Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, it details the material culture of the Partition of India. It was named A Hindustan Times 'India @ 70' book<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/india-70-5-books-that-capture-india-s-freedom-struggle-independence-and-partition/story-4lM9G3iHYtWT7ERGBsT9GJ.html|title=India @ 70: 5 books that capture India's freedom struggle, independence and partition|date=2017-08-14|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref><ref>Parkar, Hamida. (September 23, 2018)."[https://www.deccanchronicle.com/sunday-chronicle/shelf-life/230918/ambassadors-of-a-journey.html Ambassadors of a Journey], ''[[Deccan Chronicle]]''. Retrieved March 28, 2019.</ref>and shortlisted for the [[Shakti Bhatt Prize|Shakti Bhatt First Book Award]], Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, and Hindu Lit for Life Non Fiction Prize. <br />
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Outside of the Indian subcontinent, it was published under the title, ''Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided'' by [[Hurst Publishers]] in 2019.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Publishers Weekly]]|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Remnants of Partition|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-78738-120-9}}</ref> It was shortlisted by the [[British Academy]] for the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scroll.in/latest/936895/historian-aanchal-malhotras-book-shortlisted-for-british-academys-nayef-al-rodhan-prize|title=Historian Aanchal Malhotra’s book shortlisted for British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize|work=Scroll.in|date=September 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Times Higher Education|title=Interview with Aanchal Malhotra|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/people/interview-aanchal-malhotra|date=October 24, 2019|first=Anna|last=McKie}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
*{{cite web|work=Slate|title=The Notability Blues: The Wikipedia rule that makes it harder to create entries about lesser-known but important women from history|first=Stephen|last=Harrison|date=March 26, 2019|url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/wikipedia-women-history-notability-gender-gap.html}}<br />
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