Remembering partition : violence, nationalism, and history in India /
Gyan Pandey's book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India and how it is remembered. It is also a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. This is a book for historians of South Asia, sociologists, and all those concerned with the Indian su...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Contemporary South Asia ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 By way of introduction; 2 The three partitions of 1947; 3 Historians' history; 4 The evidence of the historian; 5 Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946; 6 Folding the national into the local: Delhi 1947 ... 1948; 7 Disciplining difference; 8 Constructing community; Select bibliography; Index.
