Memory and History in Krishna Sobti's A Gujrat Here, A Gujrat There

The present paper seeks to explore Krishna Sobti’s autobiographical novel A Gujrat Here, A Gujrat There, first published in Hindi in 2018 and translated by Daisy Rockwell into English in 2019, to trace how Sobti's narrative refashions the self anew after experiencing the uprooting of Partition, and how the discourse of memory and utopia are reframed in the work to fashion a recuperative, critically nostalgic mode which challenges and problematises the ideas of belonging and citizenship. The paper shall use critical nostalgia studies and memory studies to show how Sobti performs as an autonomous subject in the face of the anxiety and trauma of the Partition, to create a post-memory archive that challenges and counters hegemonic dominant narratives or received histories of the event.