The Partition of India
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ISBN:
9780199488698
Publication date:
20/09/2018
Paperback
198 pages
Price: 325.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199488698
Publication date:
20/09/2018
Paperback
198 pages
Part of Oxford India Short Introductions
Haimanti Roy
This short introduction provides a comprehensive account of the causes, experience, and aftermath of the Partition and acquaints its readers with major debates in a succinct manner. It situates the history and politics of the division within the broader histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia and draws attention to the multiplicity of meanings of 1947 and their relevance in framing and understanding contemporary challenges in South Asia.
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Part of Oxford India Short Introductions
Haimanti Roy
Description
Was the Partition of India inevitable? Was it a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs of the Indian subcontinent? Was the Partition a momentous event or a long-drawn-out messy process? Were the experiences of uprooting, violence, and rehabilitation in the divided provinces of Bengal and Punjab the same? What are the multiple legacies and memories of the Partition? More than 70 years have passed since this upheaval, yet we continue to grapple with such questions. The Partition remains in the memories of those families and individuals who lived through the trauma of violence and uprooting, the loss of life, and the travails of survival. This short introduction provides a comprehensive account of the causes, experience, and aftermath of this division and acquaints its readers with major debates in a succinct manner. It situates the history and politics of the division within the broader histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia and draws attention to the multiplicity of meanings of 1947 and their relevance in framing and understanding contemporary challenges in South Asia.
About the Author
Haimanti Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Part of Oxford India Short Introductions
Haimanti Roy
Table of contents
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Terminology
Introduction: Three Partitions
1 The Road to Partition
2 A Mottled Dawn
3 Refugees, Citizens, and the Making of the Nation
4 Legacies, Memories, and Representations
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Part of Oxford India Short Introductions
Haimanti Roy
Part of Oxford India Short Introductions
Haimanti Roy
Review
Reviews
‘This clear and concise work helps make sense of a complex and deeply fraught moment in the history of India and Pakistan. Presenting multiple perspectives and laying out the many contending narratives of the histories and legacies of the 1947 Partition of India, Haimanti Roy helps both to make its history accessible, as well as to present it in all its nuance and layeredness. As well, it points to further lines of enquiry, signalling that Partition's long shadows continue to touch so many aspects of our lives in South Asia to this day.’
—Urvashi Butalia, writer and publisher, Zubaan
‘The Partition is such a complex subject but Roy gives an extremely fair-minded and well-informed pathway through it—this book is the ideal introduction to understanding the foundations of modern South Asia.
—Yasmin Khan, faculty of history, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK.
Description
Was the Partition of India inevitable? Was it a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs of the Indian subcontinent? Was the Partition a momentous event or a long-drawn-out messy process? Were the experiences of uprooting, violence, and rehabilitation in the divided provinces of Bengal and Punjab the same? What are the multiple legacies and memories of the Partition? More than 70 years have passed since this upheaval, yet we continue to grapple with such questions. The Partition remains in the memories of those families and individuals who lived through the trauma of violence and uprooting, the loss of life, and the travails of survival. This short introduction provides a comprehensive account of the causes, experience, and aftermath of this division and acquaints its readers with major debates in a succinct manner. It situates the history and politics of the division within the broader histories of colonial and postcolonial South Asia and draws attention to the multiplicity of meanings of 1947 and their relevance in framing and understanding contemporary challenges in South Asia.
About the Author
Haimanti Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Reviews
Reviews
‘This clear and concise work helps make sense of a complex and deeply fraught moment in the history of India and Pakistan. Presenting multiple perspectives and laying out the many contending narratives of the histories and legacies of the 1947 Partition of India, Haimanti Roy helps both to make its history accessible, as well as to present it in all its nuance and layeredness. As well, it points to further lines of enquiry, signalling that Partition's long shadows continue to touch so many aspects of our lives in South Asia to this day.’
—Urvashi Butalia, writer and publisher, Zubaan
‘The Partition is such a complex subject but Roy gives an extremely fair-minded and well-informed pathway through it—this book is the ideal introduction to understanding the foundations of modern South Asia.
—Yasmin Khan, faculty of history, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK.
Table of contents
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
Note on Terminology
Introduction: Three Partitions
1 The Road to Partition
2 A Mottled Dawn
3 Refugees, Citizens, and the Making of the Nation
4 Legacies, Memories, and Representations
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
