The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia - Refugees, Boundaries, and Histories
By Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar.
Description
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into two postcolonial states of India and Pakistan was a cataclysmic event, accompanied by unprecedented genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. In this remarkable study, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar unsettles received narratives of Partition's violence and displacements and examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. The work is based on interviews with North Indian Muslim fami...
ISBN(s)
0195476328, 9780195476323
