Partition of India : postcolonial legacies /
edited by Amit Ranjan.
- First South Asia edition.
- xv, 317 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Contributed articles. "A Routledge India original"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1. Partition of India: a reaction against "differences"? / 2. The 1947 partition of Punjab / 3. Peregrination of Sindh's march towards Pakistan: communal politics, class conflict and competing nationalisms / 4. Peasant nationalism, elite conflict, and the second partition of Bengal, 1918-1947 / 5. Recovering a forgotten partition: decolonisation, displacement and memories of home and uprooting in postcolonial Assam / 6. Did India's Partition lead to the segregation of North-East India? / 7. Balochistan: from British rule to a province of Pakistan / 8. Unwanted refugees: Sindhi Hindus in India and Muhajirs in Sindhi / 9. 1950 riots and fractured social spaces: minority displacement and dispossession in Calcutta and its neighbouring areas / 10. Kashmir as partition's 'unfinished business' / 11. Lucknow: a personal history / 12. Bacha Khan: the legacy of hope and perseverance / 13. Whose history of partition?: Tamil cinema and the negotiation of national identity / 14. Re(presenting) refugee women in Bengal's partition narratives / 15. Seventy years of India-Pakistan relations / 16. India, Bangladesh and International Crime Tribunal / 17. Bangladesh-Pakistan ties: future prospects of a troubled relationship / Amit Ranjan -- Ishtiaq Ahmed -- Farhan Hanif Siddiqi -- Taj Hashmi -- Binayak Dutta -- Rituparna Bhattacharyya -- Nizam Rahim Baloch -- Nandita Bhavnani -- Subhasri Ghosh -- Farooq Sulehria -- Mehru Jaffer -- Altaf Khan -- Kalathmika Natarajan -- Roshni Sharma -- Sajad Padder -- Punam Pandey -- Pallavi Deka -- Index. Introduction : Part I. Impact of partition in the provinces and princely states : Part II. Migration and displacement : Part III. Personal history, interpretation and (re)presentation : Part IV. Relationships: India-Pakistan-Bangladesh :