Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders

This paper examines the role that the two lead authors’ personal connections played in the research methodology and data collection for the Partition Stories project—a mixed-methods approach to revisiting the much-studied historical trauma of the Partition of British India in 1947. The Project collected survivors’ oral histories, a data type that is a mainstay of qualitative research, and subjected their narrative data to statistical analysis to...