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Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik Roy.
- Title
- Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik Roy.
- Publication
- New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Roy, Kaushik, 1971-
- Description
- xliii, 276 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The year 1947 was a turning point in the history of South Asia. The independence of British India resulted in two sovereign states: India and Pakistan. This book analyses two important dimensions of the Partition-timing and causation. The essays by prominent scholars study the long- and short-term causes of the Partition, beginning with the elections of 1936-7 and the subsequent formation of Congress government in most provinces. They outline the major debates and their changing nature over time. The volume ends with the analysis of events that led to the acceptance of the Partition plan in 1947 by all major parties. The Introduction examines contours of the debate and also situates the Partition in the context of current historiography. This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of modern Indian history and politics."-- Publisher description.
- Series Statement
- Debates in Indian history and society
- Uniform Title
- Oxford in India readings. Debates in Indian history and society.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction / Kaushik Roy -- The parting of the ways / G.D. Khosla -- Concluding review / Satish Saberwal -- Nationalism versus Communalism / Gyanendra Pandey -- Islam and Muslim separatism / Francis Robinson -- The local roots of the Pakistan movement: the Aligarh Muslim University / Mushirul Hasan -- The second partition of Bengal / Partha Chatterjee -- The 1947 United Bengal Movement: a thesis without a synthesis / Bidyut Chakrabarty -- The Sikhs and the prospect of Pakistan / Indu Banga -- The success of the Muslim League: June 1945 to March 1946 / Anita Inder Singh -- Towards partition: the cabinet mission / Penderel Moon -- Why Gandhi accepted the decision to partition India / Sucheta Mahajan.
- ISBN
- 9780198077602 (hbk.)
- 0198077602 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2012376920
- OCLC
- 768071508
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library