Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. By way of introduction; 2. The three partitions of 1947; 3. Historians' history; 4. The evidence of the historian; 5. Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946; 6. Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 1947–8; 7. Disciplining difference; 8. Constructing community; Select bibliography; Index.

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A compelling and harrowing examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India.

About the Author

Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology and History at Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and is the author of many publications including Hindus and Others: The Question of identity in India Today (1993) and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990).

Reviews

'[Pandey] has produced an important and influential study which will for many years influence the agenda of the 'history from beneath' approach to the history of partition.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History