Aanchal Malhotra

Aanchal Malhotra is an Indian author and historian, best known for her work on oral history and material culture of the Partition of India in 1947. Aanchal Malhotra's debut book, Remnants of a Separation : A History of the Partition through Material Memory[3] 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. It is an attempt to revisit the Partition through personal and intimate objects that refugees carried with them across the border during their migration. 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[8][9]and shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, and Hindu Lit for Life Non Fiction Prize. 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.t was shortlisted by the British Academy for the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding