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| name = 10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia<br />
| image = 10000 memories book cover.png<br />
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| editor = [[Guneeta Singh Bhalla]] <br/>Fakhra Hasan<br/>Fahad Nahvi<br/>Udayan Das<br/>Erin Riggs<br/>Amardip Kumar Singh<br />
| country = [[United States]]<br />
| language = [[English language|English]]<br />
| genre = [[Non-fiction]]<br />
| subject = [[Oral history]] of the [[1947 Partition of India]]<br/>[[World War II]] in [[South Asia]]<br />
| publisher = [[The 1947 Partition Archive]]<br />
| pub_date = 8 August 2024<br />
| media_type = Print (hardcover)<br />
| pages = 582<br />
| isbn = 979-8-9867479-0-3<br />
}}<br />
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'''''10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia''''' is a 2024 non-fiction [[compendium]] of [[oral history|oral histories]] produced by the non-profit, [[The 1947 Partition Archive]]. The 582-page first volume, edited by founder [[Guneeta Singh Bhalla]] with Fakhra Hasan, Fahad Nahvi, Udayan Das, Erin Riggs, and Amardip Kumar Singh, was published in [[Berkeley, California]] on 8 August 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/1101752-never-ending-stories |title=Never-ending stories |first=Zubair |last=Ahmad |date=August 20, 2023 |website=[[The News International]]}}</ref> Drawing on thousands of witness testimonies recorded across the [[South Asian subcontinent]], the book reconstructs the intertwined wartime and decolonization experiences that led to the [[1947 Partition of India]].<ref name="thehindu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/stories-of-india-pakistan-partition-as-oral-recorded-history-in-1947-partition-archives-book-10000-memories/article66723661.ece|title=Stories of the Partition of India, based on the largest South-Asian oral history survey ever, now compiled in a book |first=Deepa |last=Alexander |date=April 13, 2023 |via=[[The Hindu]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/gripping-storytelling-session-busts-many-myths-surrounding-partition-101678734398356.html|title=Gripping storytelling session busts many myths surrounding Partition|date=March 14, 2023|website=[[Hindustan Times]]}}</ref><br />
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==Contents==<br />
''10,000 Memories'' is printed as a double-sided "eastern" and "western" book: one cover opens in [[Kandahar]], [[Afghanistan]], while the reverse begins in [[Yangon]], [[Myanmar]], with the narratives meeting in the [[Deccan Plateau]].<ref name="thehindu"/> More than 1,000 archival photographs accompany 400 condensed life-story summaries, each framed by contextual sidebars on [[military campaign]]s, refugee corridors and political negotiations.<ref name="indiatimes">{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/partition-archive-inaugural-book-10000-memories-a-lived-history-of-partition-set-to-release-on-friday/articleshow/98523248.cms|title=Partition archive' inaugural book 10,000 Memories, a lived history of partition set to release on Friday|date=March 9, 2023|via=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> The editors emphasize regional diversity while linking local memories to larger theatres such as the [[China Burma India Theater|China-Burma-India front]] and the [[Bengal famine of 1943|Bengal famine]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TMGrzwEACAAJ|title=10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition, Independence and World War II in South Asia|first1=The 1947 Partition|last1=Archive|first2=Ehsan|last2=Khan|date=August 8, 2024|publisher=1947 Partition Archive |isbn=979-8-9867479-0-3 }}</ref><br />
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==Reception==<br />
Critics greeted the volume as an accessible bridge between [[scholarship]] and family memory. Prasun Chaudhuri of ''[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]]'' characterized a pre-launch reading in [[Kolkata]] as "a reminder of how Partition shaped the electoral choices of a generation for their entire lifetime".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/pre-launch-of-the-book-10000-memories-a-lived-history-of-partition-independence-and-world-war-ii-in-south-asia-gets-the-telegraph-thinking-about-partition/cid/1921883|title=The Partition Party |first=Prasun |last=Chaudhuri |date=12 March 2023 |website=[[The Telegraph (India)|The Telegraph]]}}</ref> ''[[Times of India]]'' highlighted the book's "pan-South Asian scope" and the inclusion of 400 first-person narratives.<ref name="indiatimes"/><br />
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An event at [[SOAS University of London]] praised the book for offering "a unique dimension and insight into the history of Partition ... unlike any previously written."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/10000-memories-lived-history-partition-independence-and-world-war-ii-south-asia|title=10,000 Memories: A lived history of partition, independence and World War II in South Asia {{pipe}} SOAS|date=April 26, 2023|website=SOAS}}</ref> The [[University of Florida International Center]] launch event hailed the work as "the first and largest pan-South Asian oral-history survey ever conducted."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://internationalcenter.ufl.edu/10000-memories-lived-history-partition|title=10,000 Memories: A Lived History of Partition {{pipe}} International Center University of Florida}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{official website|10000memories.com}}<br />
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