Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia Refugees, Boundaries, Histories

Name: Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
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ISBN: 9780231138475

ISBN-10: 0231138474

ISBN-13: 9780231138475

Edition: 2010

Authors: Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

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Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. Yet this historical specificity of decolonization on the very making of a nationalized cartography of modern South Asia has largely gone unexamined. In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.88" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is assistant professor of history at Brown University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Translations/Transliterations


Introduction: The Place of Partition


The Making of Refugees, 1947



Muslim Exodus from Delhi



Hindu Exodus from Karachi


Moving People, Immovable Property



Refugees, Boundaries, Citizens



Economies of Displacement


Imagined Limits, Unimaginable Nations



Passports and Boundaries



The Phantasm of Passports


In Conclusion



Moving Boundaries


Abbreviations in Notes


Notes


Selected Glossary


Bibliography


Index