Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader

by Kudaisya; Gyanesh

• ISBN13: 9780415359542
• ISBN10: 0415359546
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was a turning point for the area, irrevocably altering the fortunes of the people of South Asia. This three-volume reader brings together an array of essays drawing upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data, which critically examine the effects of the partition in post-colonial South Asia. Organized thematically, the essays cover a range of topics including borders and boundaries, refugee-hood and displacement, majorities and minorities, citizenship, diaspora and the construction of post-colonial national identities. Each volume includes a critical introduction and provides a thematic overview identifying new developments and key debates within the field. Presenting a plurality of viewpoints, the contributors add a new perspective to the literature by integrating topics within a comparative framework encompassing India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Kashmir. This collection of essays addressing concerns rooted in thepost-colonial setting adds a new dimension to the current literature and paves the way for further research into the consequences of the Indian subcontinent?s partition.

Table of Contents

VOLUME I: HISTORY WRITING, VIOLENCE, BORDERS Part One: History Writing 1. Mushirul Hasan, India's Partition Revisited', in Mushirul Hasan (ed.), Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 26-44 2. David Gilmartin, Partition, Pakistan and South Asian History: In Search of a Narrative', Journal of Asian Studies , Vol. 57, No. 4 (1998), pp. 1068-95 3. Ayesha Jalal, "Conjuring Pakistan": History as Official Imagining', International Journal of Middle East Studies , Vol. 8, No. 4 (1994), pp. 73-89 4. Krishna Kumar, Partition in School Textbooks: A Comparative Look at India and Pakistan', in S. Settar and Indira Baptista Gupta (eds.), Pangs of Partition , Vol. II (New Delhi: Manohar, 2002), pp. 17-28 5. Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali, A Rite of Passage: The Partition of History and the Dawn of Pakistan', Special Issue, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies , Vol. 1, No. 2 (1999), pp. 183-200 6. Ravikant, Partition: Strategies of Oblivion, Ways of Remembering', in Ravikant and Tarun. K. Saint, Translating Partition (New Delhi: Katha, 2001), pp. 159-73 Part Two: Violence 7. Swarna Aiya, "August Anarchy": The Partition Massacres in Punjab, 1947', Special Issue, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies , Vol. 18 (1995) pp. 13-36 8. Indivar Kamtekar, The Military Ingredient of Communal Violence in Punjab, 1947', Indian History Congress Proceedings , pp. 1-6 9. Paul R. Brass, The Partition of India and Retributive Genocide in the Punjab, 1946-47: Means, Methods, and Purposes', Journal of Genocide Research , Vol. 5, No. 1 (2003), pp. 71-101 10. Ian Copland, The Further Shores of Partition: Ethnic Cleansing in Rajasthan, 1947', Past and Present , Vol. 19, No. 160, August (1998), pp. 657-704 11. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in Lahore in 1947: Some First Person Accounts', in Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi (eds.), People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 96-141 12. Gyanendra Pandey, The Long Life of Rumor', Special Issue, Partition, Alternatives , Vol. 27, No. 2, Apr./June (2002), pp. 165-91 13. Sucheta Mahajan, Gandhi's Swaraj or Hindu Raj? The Making of the Post-Independence Polity', in Vinita Damodaran and Maya Unnithan-Kumar (eds.), Postcolonial India: History, Politics and Culture (New Delhi: Manohar, 2000), pp. 55-71 Part Three: Borders 14. Tai Yong, Partition and the Making of South Asian Boundaries', in Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya, The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 78-100 15. Joya Chatterji, The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's Border Landscape, 1947-52', Modern Asian Studies , Vol. 33, No. 1 (1999), pp. 185-242 16. Shereen Ilahi, The Radclifffe Boundary Commission and the Fate of Kashmir', India Review , Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. (2003), pp. 77-102 17. Lucy Chester, The 1947 Partition: Drawing the Indo-Pakistani Boundary', American Diplomacy , Vol. 7, No. 1, Feb. (2002) VOLUME II: GENDER, MINORITIES, MEMORIES Part One: Gender 18. Bharati Ray, Women and Partition Some Questions', in Bharati Ray and Aparna Basu (eds.), From Independence Towards Freedom: Indian Women Since 1947 (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 1-18 19. Aparna Basu, Uprooted Women: Partition of Punjab 1947', in Ruth Roach Pierson and Nupur Chaudhuri (eds.), Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), pp. 270-86 20. Andrew Major, "The Chief Sufferers": Abductio