Aanchal Malhotra

Malhotra's second book Remnants of Partition : 21 Objects from a Continent Divided was published by Hurst Publishers in 2019. It was shortlisted by the British Academy for their Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.

Aanchal Malhotra's debut book, Remnants of a Separation : A History of the Partition through Material Memory was published by HarperCollins India in 2017, to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence. The project (under the same name) initially began as her MFA dissertation at Concordia University, Montréal, and includes field research in India, Pakistan and England. It is an attempt to revisit the Partition through personal and intimate objects that refugees carried with them across the border during their migration. Written as a crossover between history and anthropology, it details the material culture of the Partition of India and was named A Hindustan Times 'India @ 70' book.

Malhotra was born in New Delhi in 1990. She received a BFA in Traditional Printmaking and Art History from Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, where she won the University Medal and Sir Edmund Walker Award for Graduate Studies. She completed a MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University, Montréal.

She belongs to the family of Bahrisons Booksellers, founded by her paternal grandfather, Balraj Bahri in 1953 in New Delhi. She is also the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory, a digital repository of material culture of the Indian subcontinent, tracing family history and social ethnography through heirlooms, collectibles and objects of antiquity. In the past, she has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Partition Museum, Amritsar, and worked as Assistant Curator at Chitrashala, Museum of Indian Advertising and Graphic Art, Kumaon.

Aanchal Malhotra is an Indian author and historian, best known for her work on oral history and material culture of the Partition of India in 1947.