Life after Partition Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh: 1947 - 1962

by Ansari, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780195978346
• ISBN10: 019597834X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

By the 1990s, ethnic politics had come to dominate Sindh, with calls for Karachi to become a fifth province in its right. Life After Partition examines the historical background to these developments by focusing on events in the province in the years immediately following partition, when migrants from India and local people in Sindh found themselves living alongside each other in the newly created state of Pakistan. How far they retained distinctive notions of community and identity, and what its impact was on processes of accommodation and integration forms the main focus of this study of life in Sindh between 1947 and 1962.

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Glossary	xiii
Introduction: Community and Partition	1	(16)
Making sense of `community' in South Asia
Partition and beyond: myths and explanations
Community and Identity in Sindh before 1947	17	(29)
Identity and community in pre-twentieth century Sindh
The `opening up' of Sindh, 1900--1947
Political significance of `community' in Sindh before 1947
Coping with the Immediate Challenge of Partition: 1947--1948	46	(28)
Getting the bandwagons rolling: political reactions in Sindh
Crossing new borders: regulating refugee traffic in and out of Sindh
Points of disagreement: Karachi's status and over-spill refugees
Re-configuring Sindh: 1949--1954	74	(48)
Policies---the broader all-Pakistan picture
Competing for political `space'
The competition for resources
Drawing religious distinctions
`Borders' and `Boundaries' in Karachi: 1948--1955	122	(33)
`Homing in' on Karachi
`Colonizing' the city
Adapting Karachi's `cultural co-ordinates'
One Unit to Martial Law: 1955--1962	155	(55)
The impact of One Unit
Karachi in the late 1950s
The 1958 KMC elections and the Jamaat-i-Islami
Martial Law: `cleaning up the mess'
The status of Karachi
Epilogue and Conclusion	210	(13)
Bibliography	223	(8)
Index	231