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Revisiting India's Partition
New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics
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2016
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Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event, Revisiting India’s Partition explores the impact of the “Long Partition,” a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar’s notion of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic, and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on communities throughout the South Asian diaspora.
The nineteen interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal, multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia in relation to several topics, including decolonization and post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism. This book is dedicated to covering areas beyond Punjab and Bengal and includes analyses of how Sindh and Kashmir, Hyderabad, and more broadly South India, the Northeast, and Burma call for special attention in coming to terms with memory, culture and politics surrounding the Partition.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3104-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3105-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
363
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
Chapter One: Specters of Democracy/The Gender of Specters No access
Chapter Two: Lost Homes, Shifting Borders, and the Search for Belonging No access
Chapter Three: A Will to Say or Unsay No access
Chapter Four: Migrations in Absentia No access
Chapter Five: Exorcizing the Ghosts of Times Past No access
Chapter Six: Difficult Choices No access
Chapter Seven: Refugees as Homo Sacers No access
Chapter Eight: Property, Violence, and Displacement No access
Chapter Nine: The Long Shadow of 1947 No access
Chapter Ten: From Frontiers to Borders No access
Chapter Eleven: Looking East No access
Chapter Twelve: The Never-Ending Partition No access
Chapter Thirteen: Partition and the Bangladeshi Literary Response No access
Chapter Fourteen: Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada’s Baazigar No access
Chapter Fifteen: The Nexus of Class, Identity, and Politics in the Representational Economy of Partition No access
Chapter Sixteen: Partition and Beyond No access
Chapter Seventeen: Buckle in the Hindu Belt No access
Chapter Eighteen: Hyderabad, Partition, and Hindutva No access
