August 14/15, 1947, reverberates with meaning for Indian and Pakistani people. The date does more than mark the -independence- of India. This momentous time marks the birth of two nation states, India and Pakistan, and is fixed in the memory of many as Partition and end of the Raj.
Bearing Witness Partition, Independence, End of the Raj attempts to nuance this historical moment by considering contemporary and post-event responses to Partition, which Indians and Pakistanis have inherited as one of uncontested significance. From testimonials and speeches by Jinnah and Nehru to...
August 14/15, 1947, reverberates with meaning for Indian and Pakistani people. The date does more than mark the -independence- of India. This momentou...
This book relates the dramatic story of the struggle that took place between the Indian press and the British government for control of the Indian public sphere between 1870 and 1910. The contest gave the Indian reading publics their first taste of a struggle conducted from within the confines of the law, introduced vocabularies for conceiving counter-discursivity and defined the press and the government as distinct and opposed communities. Sukeshi Kamra deftly shows that the increasingly antagonistic relationship between the press and colonial regime is where and how a nationalist public...
This book relates the dramatic story of the struggle that took place between the Indian press and the British government for control of the Indian pub...
