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  1. The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab is a book by Marina Wheeler, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2020. It focusses on the author's Sikh mother, Kuldip Singh, known as Dip, and traces her life through the partition of India in 1947 and her life with the British journalist and broadcaster, Charles Wheeler .

  2. 20 nov 2020 · Marina Wheeler’s book is a moving, beautifully written account of how the Partition of India affected her family. The ‘lost homestead’ of the title is the family house in what is now Pakistan and from which the family was obliged to flee in the immediate aftermath of Partition in 1947.

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  3. 27 nov 2020 · The Lost Homestead — a story of colonialism and India’s identity. Biography and memoir. Add to myFT. The Lost Homestead — a story of colonialism and India’s identity. Marina Wheeler...

  4. 15 lug 2021 · Synopsis. In this gripping and eye-opening memoir, Marina Wheeler tells the story of her mother’s early years shaped by the Partition and her subsequent search for personal and political freedom. On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced.

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  5. On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With millions of others, Marina Wheeler's mother Dip Singh and her Sikh family were forced to flee their home in the Punjab, never to return.

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  6. SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE. 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which turns out to be so much more than that... it takes the reader into the contested history of India and Pakistan in the 1940s, and explores the impact of partition and division (from the Punjab to Berlin) on the lives of ...

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  7. 26 set 2019 · This is a story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom. It follows Dip when she marries Marina's English father and leaves India for good, to Berlin, then a divided city, and to Washington DC where the fight for civil rights embraced the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi.

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