Partition of India: Postcolonial Legacies

ISBN-13: 9781138080034 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 318 str.

Amit Ranjan

Opis

The book looks at key events in 1947 and explores the aftermath of the Partition and its continued impact in the present-day understanding of Indian nationhood and identity. It will interest scholars of modern Indian history, partition studies, postcolonial studies, international relations, politics, sociology, literature and South Asian studies.

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Introduction. 1. Partition: A Reaction Against ‘Differences’? PART I: PARTITION IN THE PROVINCES AND PRINCELY STATES 2. The 1947 Partition of Punjab 3. Peregrination of Sindh’s March towards Pakistan: Communal Politics, Class Conflict and Competing Nationalisms 4. Peasant Nationalism, Elite Conflict, and the Second Partition of Bengal, 1918-1947 5. Recovering A Forgotten Partition: Decolonization, Displacement and Memories of Home and Uprooting in Post-colonial Assam 6. Did India’s Partition Lead to the Segregation of North East India? 7. Balochistan under British Rule. PART II: MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT 8. Unwanted Refugees: Sindhi Hindus in India and Muhajirs in Sindh 9. 1950 Riots and Fractured Social Spaces: Minority Displacement and Dispossession in Calcutta and its Neighbouring Areas. PART III: PERSONAL HISTORY, INTERPRETATION AND (RE) PRESENTATION 10. Kashmir as Partition’s ‘Unfinished Business’ 11. Lucknow: A Personal History 12. Bacha Khan: The Legacy of Hope and Perseverance 13. Whose History of Partition: Tamil Cinema and the Negotiation of National Identity 14. Re(presenting) the Image of Refugee Woman in Bengal’s Partition Narratives. PART IV: RELATIONSHIPS: INDIA-PAKISTAN-BANGLADESH 15. Seventy Years of India-Pakistan Relations 16. India, Bangladesh and International Crime Tribunal 17. Bangladesh-Pakistan Ties: Future Prospects of a Troubled Relationship