The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia : Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
by Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali
Published by : Oxford University Press (Karachi) Physical details: xv,288 Pages 16x24 cm | HB ISBN:9780195476323. Year: 2007| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 954.042 Z23L 2007 (Browse shelf) | Available | 16856 |
Include Illustrations, Maps, Tables, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography and Index.
"In this 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 these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states amid this historic chaos."
In particular, Zamindar examines the "Muslim question" at the heart of Partition. From the margins and silences of national histories, she draws out the resistance, bewilderment, and marginalization of north Indian Muslims as they came to be pushed out and divided by both emergent nation-states. It is here that Zamindar asks us to stretch our understanding of "Partition violence" to include this long, and in some sense ongoing, bureaucratic violence of postcolonial nationhood, and to place Partition at the heart of a twentieth century of border-making and nation-state formation.
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