This is a study of some of the combinatorial and topological properties of finite Coxeter complexes. The author begins by studying some of the general topological and algebraic properties of quotients of Coxeter complexes, and determines when they are pseudomanifolds (with or wi…
Path functions and their basic properties are obtained by extending the constructive theory of partition generating functions developed by Sylvester, Durfee, Andrews and others. Path functions also arise when we have an expansion of a function satisfying a linear difference equa…
This is a biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the story of the creation of Pakistan. At a time of much interest and concern about Pakistan in the international community, this volume provides a historical context which helps in an understanding of the present. It traces the dev…
"This book will be vital reading for scholars and students of colonialism, decolonization, partition and borderlands studies, while providing anyone interested in South Asia's independence with a highly readable account of one of its most controversial episodes."--Jacket.
Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of peace agreements have been signed, many of them in bloody intra-state conflicts that were previously thought beyond resolution. How have these agreements addressed issues of territory, security, power and justice? Do they rev…
"This book makes a case for the unprecedented violence in India's immediate postcolonization and argues that it played a crucial role in institutional and constitutional development during this six-year span"--
The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted …
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent – into India and Pakistan in 1947 – was one of the crucial moments marking the break between the colonial and postcolonial era. My project is invested in exploring the Partition not merely in terms of the events of August 1947, but as an …
In this dissertation, I focus on literary representations of the partition of British India in 1947 during which approximately one million people were massacred, eight to ten million people were displaced, and women of minority communities were systematically raped, mutilated an…
Like other regions of the Indian subcontinent, colonial Bengal saw considerably organized Dalit political movements against its historically dominant upper caste Hindus. With the Partition of Bengal and the winning of India's and Pakistan's freedom from British rule in 1947 howe…
The dissertation examines U.S. policy towards partition in the 1990s. Partition is defined as the division of a sovereign state into one or more sovereign states, representing the successful culmination of one or more secessionist or irredentist movements. The author utilizes th…
This dissertation examines the work of the Radcliffe Boundary Commission, which drew the Indo-Pakistani boundary during the 1947 partition of South Asia. Focusing on the division of Punjab, it explores the impact of the new border. This boundary-making effort was significant for…
This study examines the trauma of the partition in Indian fictions, mainly of the last two decades. Until recently this trauma was thought to derive almost exclusively from the enormous violence provoked by the partition of 1947. This study argues that the political division is …
This dissertation considers alternative accounts of the Partition in the performative public sphere that complicate our received official histories of Indian independence from British rule. The 1947 Partition of British India into India and Pakistan affords a crucial historic mo…
This dissertation argues for a reconceptualization of the 1947 Partition of India as the occurrence of a historical trauma. In contrast to the story of the Partition as an epiphenomenal event of independence, I suggest that the division of British India into the new nations of I…
