Sukanya Deepak

Memoirs of 1947 started as a personal project to preserve stories that my Grandfather told me as a child.

In the year 1947, India became a free country but was also divided into the two states of India and Pakistan. Even though freedom came as a welcome reward, the partition imbued it’s own horrors. The people of the North Indian subcontinent were displaced, seperated from one another and forced to abandon their homes. The Partition of India is often known as the largest displacement in human history — and the effects of it remain today.

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Memoirs of 1947 is a hypothetical project in collaboration with the Times of India to document untold stories about the Partition of the Indian Sub-continent. The Largest mass migration known to history, it aims at preserving memories of a land which was once one.

This initiative starts with a parcel delivered to subscribers which includes stories of survivors, a set of postcards and invites to an event. With my project, I aimed to preserve first hand accounts of that last  generation that witnessed the Partition. I wanted to get people to To get people to talk about stories that affected human relationships, families and the overall Indian society.