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Witnesses are waiting right now to share their incredible and historic memories. Will you donate now to help us reach one witness? Frequency: Single Monthly As a MONTHLY donor, receive updates about the stories your donation preserved. It costs $200 to record, archive, preserve, and share one story. $ goal $ raised stories percent -- For donations in INDIA , please visit http://in.1947partitionarchive.org/donate For donations in PAKISTAN and BANGLADESH , please write to ask@1947partitionarchive.org Subscribe to our mailing list Email Address Join us. Available positions: > Seventeen (17) internships and apprenticeships available. Apply by December 16, 2020. > Become a Citizen Historian interviewer. Join a free oral history workshop. WATCH: Sunday Stories Live Conversations that spark critical reflection. Thank you for joining us for Season 1 of Sunday Stories Live with host Noor Chawla. Sunday Stories Live is an interactive webseries that airs live on Facebook , featuring eminent movers and shakers changing our perception on South Asian history, on South Asian current events, especially as it relates to modern remnants of colonialism and the 1947 Partition. To watch recordings from Season 1, visit the series page . RSVP here to receive updates on the upcoming Season 2, to be hosted by Sonam Kalra. Stories at Mandi House Metro Station, Delhi Displayed till: Ongoing Exhibit: Art in the Metro ( My Heart Belongs in Delhi, Women During Partition) An ongoing exhibition at the Mandi House Metro Station brings glimpses into Delhi's past through excerpts of oral history. Quotes from those who fled Delhi in 1947 and those who migrated to Delhi in 1947 attempt to capture the impacts of Partition on Delhi in 1947. Also included in the display are images from a captivating 2017 exhibit held by The 1947 Partition Archive at the India Habitat Center, entitled 'Women During Partition.' Read about it in the news: Anand Bazaar Patrika News Highlights The 1947 Partition Archive has been featured over 200 times by journalists. To see a more complete list, visit this newsroom . Indiaspora: How being in the diaspora helped me build the largest oral history archive of South Asia (August 11, 2020) First post : The Coronavirus pandemic gave 1947 Partition Archive an unlikely shot in the arm: a series with speakers from both sides of the border ( July 18, 2020 ) The Hindu : Partition oral history project goes online due to Covid-19 (April 8, 2020) India Today : 1947 Beyond the tracks (January 25, 2020) The Diplomat : What Really Caused the Violence of Partition? ( August 28, 2019 ) Asian Age : We are touched by this gesture from Salman Khan: Witness of 1947 partition ( June 13, 2019 ) Pacific Standard : Saving the library before if burns ( November 19, 2018 ) Dawn.com : Time to heal ( August 18, 2017 ) NPR News : Giving Voice to Memories From 1947 Partition And The Birth of India and Pakistan ( August 13, 2017) BBC News : Collecting ‘difficult memories’ from the birth of two nations ( August 8, 2017 ) The New York Times : Potent Memories From a Divided India ( August 14, 2013 ) The Tribune : Largest collection of Partition witness accounts set for release ( August 7, 2017 ) Times of India : Notes From The Great Divide: Witnesses of Partition unite to tell tales of pain and separation ( August 7, 2017 ) Mumbai Mirror : Revisiting Partition: 70 Years On, Mumbaikars Come Together To Reflect On The Past ( August 6, 2017 ) The Nation : ' I wanted to change the lack of knowledge about Partition ' (August 17, 2016) Al Jazeera : Remembering the great divide ( August 12, 2015 ) The Wall Street Journal : Oral History Project Races to Record Voices of Partition Survivors in India and Pakistan ( August 12, 2014 ) Hindustan Times : History in the Making ( February 2, 2014 ) Sponsors The 1947 Partition Archive is funded by thousands of community members like you , from across the world, who range in age and have contributed gifts of all sizes. As the Archive has grown, it has garnered support from institutional donors as well. Major donors include (in alphabetical order): Acton Family Fund ATE Chandra Foundation California Humanities Founding Donors National Endowment for the Humanities National Storytelling Network Silicon Valley Community Foundation Tata Trusts ARCHIVE RESEARCH GRANTS Apply by December 21, 2020 (extended) The 1947 Partition Archive is pleased to announce a month long immersive research residency via the, the Tata Trusts - Partition Archive Research Grant , for academic researchers in India seeking full access to our complete collections. This grant is brought to you in partnership with Tata Trusts in India. Faculty level, graduate and undergraduate student level grants are available. Visit the complete request for proposal to learn more. The 1947 Partition Archive A global digital archive built by and for everyone. Welcome to The 1947 Partition Archive We are dedicated to documenting the people's history of the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition, a globally disruptive event that created one of the largest mass refugee crises of the last century. Through an innovative crowdsourcing approach developed in 2010, The 1947 Partition Archive has democratized historical documentation, bringing forth voices from communities previously underrepresented and histories previously unknown. Today, nearly 9,500 witness oral histories recorded from 12 countries in over 36 languages and dialects have been preserved in The 1947 Partition Archive, including digital copies of antiquated photographs, documents and images of personal objects of historical value, gathered from personal collections. The collections have been compiled by over 600 Citizen Historian volunteers , over 150 Story Scholars , 200 community based digital archivists and other volunteers. The 1947 Partition Archive is built together by all of us, for all of us. Our work is not purely academic but is public history with humanitarian undertones. We are devoting our lives to serving witnesses and to creating a more empathetic world. Learn more by visiting the Mission & Activities page. Join the effort by volunteering to document oral histories in your community as a citizen historian or learning while giving back as an intern . Learn more... Watch on New York Times : Watch on YouTube : Oral History Snippets See more snippets on Youtube and Facebook . Video: Ali Shan migrated from East to West Punjab (full interview coming soon) Video : Kazi Shamsuzzaman migrated from West to East Bengal (full interview coming soon). Video : Ajit Cour migrated from West to East Punjab (full interview coming soon). Home | FAQ | Contact us | Terms of Use | Copyright © 2011 - 2020 The 1947 Partition Archive. All rights reserved....