Author : David Page
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : India
ISBN : 9780195645903
This volume traces the changes in the Muslim League from 1920 to 1932. It does not seek to question the part played by religion in the formation of Pakistan, but concentrates on the formal structure of politics during this period.
Author : David Page
Publisher : Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Penny Sinanoglou
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 022666581X
Partitioning Palestine is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition—that is, a division of territory and sovereignty—in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inverting the spate of narratives that focus on how the idea contributed to, or hindered, the development of future Israeli and Palestinian states, Penny Sinanoglou asks instead what drove and constrained British policymaking around partition, and why partition was simultaneously so appealing to British policymakers yet ultimately proved so difficult for them to enact. Taking a broad view not only of local and regional factors, but also of Palestine’s place in the British empire and its status as a League of Nations mandate, Sinanoglou deftly recasts the story of partition in Palestine as a struggle to maintain imperial control. After all, British partition plans imagined space both for a Zionist state indebted to Britain and for continued British control over key geostrategic assets, depending in large part on the forced movement of Arab populations. With her detailed look at the development of the idea of partition from its origins in the 1920s, Sinanoglou makes a bold contribution to our understanding of the complex interplay between internationalism and imperialism at the end of the British empire and reveals the legacies of British partitionist thinking in the broader history of decolonization in the modern Middle East.
Author : Stefano Bianchini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134276540
Studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. These innovative volumes use comparative analysis to fill the gap in partition studies.
Author : Churnjeet Mahn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3319645161
This edited collection attends to the locations of memory along and about the Indo-Pakistan and Indo-Bangladesh borders and the complex ways in which such memories are both allowed for and erased in the present. The collection is situated at the intersection of narratives connected to memory and commemoration in order to ask how memories have been formed and perpetuated across the imposition of these borders. It explores how national boundaries both silence memories and can be subverted in important ways, through consideration of physical sites and cultural practices on both sides of the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh borders that gesture towards that which has been lost – that is, the cultural whole that was the cultural regions of Punjab and Bengal before Partition, as well as broader cultural "wholes" across South Asia, across religious and linguistic lines – alongside forces that deny such connections. The chapters address issues of heritage and memory through specific case-studies on present-day memorial, museological and commemoration practices, through which sometimes competing memorial landscapes have been constructed, and show how memories of past traumas and histories become inscribed into diverse forms of cultural heritage (the built landscape, literature, film).
Author : Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9357085831
In popular imagination, Lala Lajpat Rai is frequently associated with Bhagat Singh, who, by assassinating J.P. Saunders, avenged Rai’s death, caused by a police lathi charge, and was hanged for it. Lajpat Rai is also remembered for his fervent opposition to British rule. In recent decades, however, historians have converged with the Hindu Right in rediscovering Lajpat Rai as an ideological ancestor of Hindutva. But what then explains Rai’s wholehearted approval of Congress–Muslim League cooperation, and attempt to endow Hindus and Muslims with bonds of common belonging? Why did he reinterpret India’s medieval history to highlight peaceful coexistence between Hindus and Muslims? Have our hasty conclusions about Lajpat Rai’s nationalist thought concealed its complexities and distorted our understanding of nationalism in general? Meticulously researched and eloquently written, Being Hindu, Being Indian offers the first comprehensive examination of Lajpat Rai’s nationalist thought. By revealing the complexities of Rai’s thinking, it provokes us to think more deeply about broader questions relevant to present-day politics: Are all expressions of ‘Hindu nationalism’ the same as Hindutva? What are the similarities and differences between ‘Hindu’ and ‘Indian’ nationalism? Can communalism and secularism be expressed together? How should we understand fluidity in politics? This book invites readers to treat Lajpat Rai’s ideas as a gateway to think more deeply about history, politics, religious identity and nationhood.
Author : Arie M. Dubnov
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1503607682
Partition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel—emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization. Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel—the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces. In so doing, the volume seeks to move beyond the nationalist frameworks that served in the first instance to promote partition as a natural phenomenon.
Author : Jaswant Singh
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195479270
The issues concerning the Partition of India in 1947 have long been debated both by Indian and Pakistani historians, but now a leader directly responsible for the Defence and Foreign Affairs of India has come forward with a historical appraisal that helps both countries come to a better understanding of the contentions between them. Jaswant Singh has not written a hagiography of Jinnah, but focused on him as a key figure in the final deliberations preceding Independence.
Author : Abida Shakoor
Publisher : Aakar Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2003
Category : India
ISBN : 9788187879084
The Book Is Based On The Authentic Research Work Which Was Extensive As Well As Intensive In Nature. It Throws Light On The Great Tragedy Called Division Of India That Ultimately Led To The Displacement Of Millions Of People From Both The Sides. It Is An Indepth Study Of The Forces And The Factors Which Were Working In The Background Of This Incidence. The Congress And The Muslim League Tussle Ultimately Divided India And Communalise Our Psyche For A Very Long Time.This Book Is Distinct Due To Its Boldness And Intellectual Honesty. It Gives The Reader A New Insight About Contemporary Ethos.
Author : Bashabi Fraser
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1843312999
Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.
