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Title

India's partition : process, strategy and mobilization / edited by Mushirul Hasan.

Publication

Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Hasan, Mushirul.

Description

viii, 426 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

• 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 persists until this day.
• To the historian, India's partition and the subsequent birth of Pakistan presents a series of paradoxes: the Muslim League's sudden rise to power from a relatively insignificant position in the pre-1940 period; Jinnah - known to be a staunch believer of secular nationalist principles until the early 1930s - emerging as the major advocate of the Pakistan demand; and finally, the Congress' acceptance of the partition plan with seeming alacrity, thus relinquishing its vaunted principles of national unity.
• The essays, extracts and memoirs in this volume together try to make sense of these paradoxes. They include extracts from the speeches and writings of Azad, Jinnah, Gandhi and Nehru, memoirs of people who were actively involved in the politics of the time, and a short story by Sadaat Hasan Manto. The essays primarily look at events during the decade preceding Partition.
• They focus on the development of communal polities in Punjab, Bengal and Uttar Pradesh; the history of sectarian tension in the princely state of Hyderabad; Jinnah's personal charisma and his notion of realpolitik; issues of community and identity in Bengal; the conflict between liberal democratic and Islamic views on political representation; the Muslim mass contact campaign; and the constitutional strategies adopted in consolidating the Pakistan demand.

Series Statement

Oxford in India readings. Themes in Indian history

Uniform Title

Oxford in India readings. Themes in Indian history.

Subject

• India > History > 1947-
• Pakistan > History

Bibliography (note)

• Annotated bibliography: p. [420]-426.

Contents

• Presidential Address of M. A. Jinnah - Lahore, March 1940 -- Presidential Address of Abul Kalam Azad - Ramgarh, December 1940 -- Extracts from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi -- An Extract from The Discovery of India -- Muslims and Political Representation in Colonial India: The Making of Pakistan / Farzana Shaikh -- The High Politics of India's Partition: The Revisionist Perspective / Asim Roy -- The Muslim Miss Contacts Campaign: Analysis of a Strategy of Political Mobilization / Mushirul Hasan -- Jinnah and the Pakistan Demand / R.J. Moore -- Religious Leadership and the Pakistan Movement in the Punjab / David Gilmartin -- The Growth of the Muslim League in the Punjab, 1937-46 / Ian A. Talbot -- Bengal Politics and the Muslim Masses, 1920-47 / Partha Chatterjee -- Divided Bengal: Problems of Nationalism and Identity in the 1947 Partition / Leonard A. Gordon -- The Illusion of Security: The Background to Muslim Separatism in the United Provinces / Lance Brennan.
• 'Communalism' in Princely India: The Case of Hyderabad, 1930-40 / Ian Copland -- Toba Tek Singh / Saadat Hasan Manto -- The Partition of India in Retrospect / Mohammad Mujeeb -- Some Memories / Raja of Mahmudabad.

ISBN

0195630777

OCLC

ocm28881498

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries