Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so violent-it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for more than a century. But as the summer of 1947 approached, Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs were hea…
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Studies how the new international boundary between India and Pakistan was shaped and offers an alternative history, problematising current conceptions of the international boundary between India and Pakistan. Contraband, consumption, clan, caste, class, and state-building weave …
"The processes of establishing new national orders in the aftermath of the Partition entailed that minorities-Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India-had to re-negotiate their identities as rightful citizens. This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minoritie…
Le site d'éditeur indique : "Pakistan, founded less than a decade after a homeland for India's Muslims was proposed, is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical parado…
"The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: partition, the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and the communal riots that follo…
Standard historical accounts of the emergence of Pakistan have been dominated by events and issues at the elite level of politics. This book introduces two new angles to the subject. It lays particular emphasis firstly on the role of popular participation in the freedom struggle…
Standard historical accounts of the emergence of Pakistan have been dominated by events and issues at the elite level of politics. This book introduces two new angles to the subject. It lays particular emphasis firstly on the role of popular participation in the freedom struggle…
"The Partition is probably the most cataclysmic event in the history of Twentieth-century India. It has had a profound impact on contemporary culture, literature, history and historiography. The impression left on the minds of those who lived through those traumatic times persis…
During World War II, Churchill engaged in propaganda in the US to persuade the American public and President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. This text unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, re…
Partition of India: postcolonial legacies
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