Partitioned Lives : Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65
ISBN: 9780198081777 | 0198081774
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/15/2013
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This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minorities, and the subsequent reordering of national identities in India and East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh). It examines how India and East Pakistan engaged with their post-Partition predicaments and how ordinary people on both sides reacted, adopted, and negotiated.
The processes of establishing new national orders in the aftermath of the Partition entailed that minorities-Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India-had to re-negotiate their identit... MORE
The processes of establishing new national orders in the aftermath of the Partition entailed that minorities-Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India-had to re-negotiate their identit... MORE
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Partitioned Histories, Divided Identities
Part I. Territories:
1. Drafting a New Nation
2. Limits of the Nation
Part II. Citizens:
3. Home and Hearth
4. Citizens of the Nation
Part III. Identities:
5. The Routine of Violence
6. Refugees and the Indian State
'Epilogue: Memories and Realities
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
... MORE
Note on Terminology
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Partitioned Histories, Divided Identities
Part I. Territories:
1. Drafting a New Nation
2. Limits of the Nation
Part II. Citizens:
3. Home and Hearth
4. Citizens of the Nation
Part III. Identities:
5. The Routine of Violence
6. Refugees and the Indian State
Epilogue:
After Midnight
Bibliography
Index
Haimanti Roy is a historian of South Asia. She has taught at University of Cincinnati and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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