Research Catalog

Title

Partition of India : postcolonial legacies / edited by Amit Ranjan.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
• ©2019

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Additional Authors

Ranjan, Amit

Description

xv, 317 pages : map; 23 cm

Summary

The Partition of British India in 1947 set in motion events that have had far-reaching consequences in South Asia--wars, military tensions, secessionist movements and militancy/terrorism. This book looks at key events in 1947 and explores the aftermath of teh Partition and its continued impact in the present-day understanding of nationhood and identity. It also examines the diverse and fractured narratives that framed popular memory and understanding of history in the region. The volume includes discussions on the manner in which regions such as the Punjab, Sindh, Kashmir, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow) and North-East India were influenced. It deals with issues such as communal politics, class conflict, religion, peasant nationalism, decolonization, migration, displacement, riots, the state of refugees, women and minorities, as well as the political relationship between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Subjects

• India
• India > History > Partition, 1947
• Partition of India (1947)
• History
• 1947

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Partition of India: a reaction against 'differences'? / Amit Ranjan -- Part I. Impact of partition in the provinces and princely states : 2. The 1947 partition of Punjab / Ishtiaq Ahmed -- 3. Peregrination of Sindh's march towards Pakistan: communal politics, class conflict and competing nationalisms / Farhan Hanif Siddiqi -- 4. Peasant nationalism, elite conflict, and the second partition of Bengal, 1918-1947 / Taj Hashmi -- 5. Recovering a forgotten partition: decolonisation, displacement and memories of home and uprooting in postcolonial Assam / Binayak Dutta -- 6. Did India's Partition lead to the segregation of North-East India? / Rituparna Bhattacharyya -- 7. Balochistan: from British rule to a province of Pakistan / Nizam Rahim Baloch -- Part II. Migration and dispalcement : 8. Unwanted refugees: Sindhi Hindus in India and Muhajirs in Sindhi / Nandita Bhavnani -- 9. 1950 riots and fractured social spaces: minority displacement and dispossession in Calcutta and its neighbouring areas / Subhasri Ghosh -- Part III. Personal history, interpretation and (re)presentation : 10. Kashmire as Partition's 'unfinished business' / Farooq Sulehria -- 11. Lucknow: a personal history / Mehru Jaffer -- 12. Bacha Khan: the legacy of hope and perseverance / Altaf Khan -- 13. Whose history of partition?: Tamil cinema and the negotiation of national identity / Kalathmika Natarajan -- 14. Re(presenting) refugee women in Bengal's partition narratives / Roshni Sharma -- Part IV. Relationships: India-Pakistan-Bangladesh : 15. Seventy years of India-Pakistan relations / Sajad Padder 00 16. India, Bangladesh and International Crime Tribunal / Punam Pandey -- 17. Bangladesh-Pakistan ties: future prospects of a troubles relationship / Pallavi Deka.

Call Number

JFD 19-2490

ISBN

• 9781138080034
• 1138080039
• 9780429750533 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429750526 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429750519 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780429422959 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1081125496

Title

Partition of India : postcolonial legacies / edited by Amit Ranjan.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1947

Added Author

Ranjan, Amit, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 19-2490