1. Introduction2. Partition and the making of South Asian boundaries: disruptions and displacements3. Rememberances of 14-15 August 1947: rituals of independence, realities of nationhood4. A community in crisis: partition and the Sikhs, 1940-485. From displacement to development: partition and the East Punjab countryside, 1947-676. Divided landscapes, fragmented identities: East Bengal refugees and their rehabilitation in India, 1947-797. Capital landscapes: the imprint of partition on South Asian capital cities8. Punjab and the making of the Pakistani state9. 'Beyond homelands': partition and the South African diaspora
Gyanesh Kudaisya, Tan Tai Yong
'A valuable academic study of the subcontinent which is accessible
to the serious general reader and enhances our understanding of
some of its most intractable problems' - Judit M. Brown, Beit
Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford
'...Tan and Kudaisyas set out a very clear and succinct
historiography of partition and its place in South Asian history.
It is a wide-ranging study with a strong comparative dimension,
exploring the impact of partition and its legacy for India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh...this is a valuable addition to the
historiography. Most imporatantly, it points the way to further
avenues of research.' - The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth
History, Pippa Virdee
'A valuable academic study of the subcontinent which is accessible
to the serious general reader and enhances our understanding of
some of its most intractable problems' - Judit M. Brown, Beit
Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford
'Tan and Kudaisyas set out a very clear and succinct historiography
of partition and its place in South Asian history. It is a
wide-ranging study with a strong comparative dimension, exploring
the impact of partition and its legacy for India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh...this is a valuable addition to the historiography.
Most imporatantly, it points the way to further avenues of
research.' - The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
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