Partition as a challenge to the 'homogeneous' German nation / Ina Dietzch -- De-partitioning society : contesting borders of the mind in Bangladesh and India / Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff and Ellen Bal -- The cartographic imagination : British mandate Palestine / Efrat Ben-Ze'ev -- Constructing Palestine through surveillance practices / Elia Zureik -- Partition violence in memory and performance : the Punjabi Dhadi tradition / Michael Nijhawan -- Memories of a lost home : partition in the fiction of the subcontinent / Alok Bhalla -- A homeland torn apart : partition in a Palestinian refugee camp / Nina Gren -- Partition and partings : the paradox of German kinship ties / Tatjana Thelen -- Partition of Bengal or creation of a 'nation'? : memories of difference / Habibul Haq Khondker -- The surung (tunnel) of Madanpura : partition motif in Banaras / Vasanthi Raman -- Living in the shadow of emergency in Palestine / Hunaida Ghanim -- Partition in contemporary struggles over religious spaces in Bhopal / Ursula Rao -- Collective memory and obstacles to reconciliation efforts in Israel / Zvi Bekerman -- North Korea South Korea : one Korea and the relevance of German reunification / John Borneman.