India's Partition Process, Strategy and Mobilization

Name: India's Partition Process, Strategy and Mobilization
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ISBN: 9780195630770

ISBN-10: 0195630777

ISBN-13: 9780195630770

Edition: 1993

Authors: Mushirul Hasan

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A collection of essays analyzing the events leading to the partition of India and to the birth of Pakistan, this book argues against the theory that "Muslim separatism" was the cause behind the cataclysmic event, India's partition, and the subsequent birth of the two nations. Hasan outlines the reasons behind the sudden rise of the Muslim League from a relatively insignificant position to that of being the strongest representative of the Muslim community in India. He ascribes it to a series of miscalculations on the part of the ministries with the League and its claim of being the sole mouthpiece of the Indian Nationalist opinion. The first four chapters of the book include extracts from…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 436
Size: 5.88" wide x 8.75" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



General Editors' Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Presidential Address of M. A. Jinnah - Lahore, March 1940


Presidential Address of Abul Kalam Azad - Ramgarh, December 1940


Extracts from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi


An Extract from The Discovery of India


Muslims and Political Representation in Colonial India: The Making of Pakistan



The High Politics of India's Partition: The Revisionist Perspective



The Muslim Miss Contacts Campaign: Analysis of a Strategy of Political Mobilization



Jinnah and the Pakistan Demand



Religious Leadership and the Pakistan Movement in the Punjab



The Growth of the Muslim League in the Punjab, 1937-46



Bengal Politics and the Muslim Masses, 1920-47



Divided Bengal: Problems of Nationalism and Identity in the 1947 Partition



The Illusion of Security: The Background to Muslim Separatism in the United Provinces



'Communalism' in Princely India: The Case of Hyderabad, 1930-40



Toba Tek Singh



The Partition of India in Retrospect



Some Memories



Annotated Bibliography