{"product_id":"9781473677746","title":"The Lost Homestead : My Mother, Partition and the Punjab","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Wheeler, Marina, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 12\/11\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 336 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781473677746\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eOn 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith 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. As an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is now Pakistan, Marina Wheeler weave's her mother's story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom into the broader, still highly contested, history of the region. We follow 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lost Homestead touches on global themes that strongly resonate today: political change, religious extremism, migration, minorities, nationhood, identity and belonging. But above all it is about coming to terms with the past, and about the stories we choose to tell about ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37121509195929,"sku":"9781473677746","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781473677746.jpg?v=1605289489","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781473677746","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}