Two-Day National Seminar on Partition of India and its Roots and Legacy: Memory and Trauma on the Eastern Corridor Organized by: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) (An Autonomous Body under the Ministry of Culture) Government of India & Department of English Janata College P.O. Kabuganj, Cachar, Assam, India-788121 5th & 6 th October 2018 Concept Note : “Partition” – the division of British India on August 14-15, 1947 into the two separate independent dominions, India and Pakistan – was the “last-minute” mechanism by which the British handed over the political sovereignty. The euphoria of getting independence from almost two hundred years of British colonization made few people understood what Partition would bring about and the large scale violence and deaths and the enormous scale of migration that followed had left an inerasable scar on the vast majority of contemporaries who are still living with...