Aanchal Malhotra
Aanchal Malhotra is an Indian author, best known for her work on oral history and material culture of the Partition of India in 1947.[1]
Aanchal Malhotra | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer Historian Curator Co-Founder |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Period | 2017-Present |
| Genre | History |
| Notable works | Remnants of a Separation : A History of the Partition through Material Memory , Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided (Upcoming) |
| Notable awards | Shortlisted For Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, Hindu Lit for Life Non Fiction Prize, Publishing Next Printed Book of the Year |
| Website | |
| http://www.aanchalmalhotra.com/ | |
Malhotra was born in New Delhi in 1990 and lived there until 2007, after which she travelled to Canada for further studies. She received a BFA in Traditional Printmaking and Art History from [[Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, where she won the prestigious University Medal and [[Sir Edmund Walker Award for Graduate Studies. She completed a MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University, Montréal.
She is third-generation of the Bahrisons Booksellers family, begun by her paternal grandfather, Balraj Bahri in 1953. 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. In the past, she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Partition Museum, Amritsar, and worked as Assistant Curator at Chitrashala, Museum of Indian Advertising and Graphic Art, Kumaon.[2]
Writing Career
Aanchal Malhotra's debut book, 'Remnants of a Separation : A History of the Partition through Material Memory' was published by HarperCollins India in 2017, to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, and rose to critical acclaim. 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 a unique attempt to revisit the Partition through personal and intimate objects that refugees carried with them across the border. Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, it is the first and only book detailing the material culture of the Partition of India. [2]
It was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Award, the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, the Hindu Lit for Life Non Fiction Prize, the Publishing Next Printed Book of the Year, and longlisted for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, and Oxford Book Cover Prize . It is also a A Hindustan Times ‘India @ 70’ book.[3]
Malhotra's debut book is due to be published by Hurst Publishers in the UK in March 2019, under the title, 'Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided'[1]
References
- ^ a b Malhotra, Aanchal (2017). Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory. HarperCollins. pp. 1–3. ISBN 9352770129.
- ^ a b Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided. 2019. pp. 1–3.
- ^ "THE HINDU". The Hindu. 2017.