Abstract The academic discourse of the mass violence that took place during the Partition/Independence of India and Pakistan has acquired certain maturity over the decades. The corpus of literature generated has been insightful and path-breaking. In the backdrop of this scholarship, the current article attempts to engage with the experiences of witnessing and emphasize upon transformative potential of such encounters. With few Partition-based Hindi films, this study also looks at the landscape of the Partition on the celluloid, where the screen converges with history and where the memory of trauma generates guilt. Mobilising the fieldwork conducted seventeen–eighteen years ago in Delhi, Ajmer and Jammu along with the cinematic representations and written corpus on the Partition, an engagement with the figure of a witness in this article will hopefully allow us to engage with memory, archive and the mass violence with fresh questions and perspectives.

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观看创伤：见证分裂

摘要 几十年来，关于印度和巴基斯坦分治/独立期间发生的大规模暴力的学术论述已经成熟。所产生的文学语料库具有洞察力和开创性。在这项奖学金的背景下，本文试图参与见证和强调此类遭遇的变革潜力。由于很少有基于分区的印地语电影，这项研究还着眼于赛璐珞上的分区景观，屏幕与历史融合，创伤记忆产生内疚。动员十七至十八年前在德里、阿杰梅尔和查谟进行的实地考察，以及关于分区的电影表现和书面语料库，