This anthology includes historical reformulations of the experience of the Partition of India in 1947 and its repercussions in the present times. Memory is a very complex phenomenon. It reaches out to dimensions beyond historians’ archives and poses ethical choices and challenges in a manner that invites constant re-visioning and retelling, not only to understand the past but how that past has shaped the experiential reality of the present. As any work of research is triggered off or incited by some personal choice or decision, this book had its inception in my paternal grandmother’s personal accounts of Partition stories to me, when I was just a child. Her rejection of faith in Hindu gods and goddesses, after the family had crossed the border in the wake of the impending holocaust, had often intrigued me as a child. Moreover, there was no Hindu rage against the Muslims in her, only a sense of an irreparable loss and agony. Her urgency to narrate her past, her voice echoing her dumb sorrow and anguish, kept drumming in my brain, long after she passed away, to haunt me in my idle hours and sometimes even interceded my dreams.