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  1. On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With 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.

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  2. The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab is a book by Marina Wheeler, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2020. It focusses on the author's Sikh mother, Kuldip Singh, known as Dip, and traces her life through the partition of India in 1947 and her life with the British journalist and broadcaster, Charles Wheeler .

  3. Jul 15, 2021 · In this gripping and eye-opening memoir, Marina Wheeler tells the story of her mothers early years shaped by the Partition and her subsequent search for personal and political freedom. On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced.

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  4. Nov 27, 2020 · The Lost Homestead — a story of colonialism and Indias identity. Marina Wheeler charts her mother’s journey from the final days of the Raj to the early days of Indian independence. A...

  5. Nov 11, 2020 · Boris Johnson’s ex-wife Marina Wheeler tells the story of her much-loved Sikh-born mother and the loss of her home in the dislocation and violence that marked the birth of Pakistan, in...

  6. Nov 12, 2020 · The 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.

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  8. Details. On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into two states was announced. For months the violence and civil unrest escalated. With 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.

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