Remembering Partition Violence, Nationalism and History in India

Name: Remembering Partition Violence, Nationalism and History in India
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ISBN: 9780521002509

ISBN-10: 0521002508

ISBN-13: 9780521002509

Edition: 2001

Authors: Gyanendra Pandey, Jan Breman, G. P. Hawthorn, Ayesha Jalal, Patricia Jeffery

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Through an investigation of the violence that marked the partition of British India in 1947, this text asks questions of history and memory, the nationalisation of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Her books include "Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia," "Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850," and "The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for Pakistan."



Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



By way of introduction



The three partitions of 1947



Historians' history



The evidence of the historian



Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946



Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 1947ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1948



Disciplining difference



Constructing community


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