Tejshvi Jain from ReReeti, an organisation that works towards revitalising museums and heritage sites, recalls how her exhibition, ‘The Undivided Identities’, was born.
The Undivided Identities: Unknown Stories of Partition project aims to uncover how, during the partition, non-Muslims from Sindh in Pakistan migrated and settled down in different states of India, including Bengaluru.
She emphasises the importance of localising and contextualising history. Reiterating that the exhibition was mainly for students, she says that children wanted to know about the partition and how it affected them, which is where the idea came from. The journey started with localising it and contextualising it to Bengaluru and the state responded.
It was a choice-based narrative - to put the viewer in the shoes of a partition survivor to see what they went through.
"Our main focus was on how to make history relevant to students. That’s how Undivided Identities was born," she says.
