The Spoils of Partition
Author: Joya Chatterji
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781107182103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn assessment of the devastating social, political and economic consequences of the partition of Bengal.
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Bengal Divided
Author: Joya Chatterji
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-06-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521523288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original and compelling account of the Hindu partitionist movement in Bengal.
Partition's Legacies
Author: Joya Chatterji
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 143848335X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPartition's Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji's finest and most influential essays. "Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations," she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book. Chatterji's first book, Bengal Divided, shifted the focus from Muslim fanaticism as the driving force of Partition towards "secular" nationalism and Hindu aggression. Her Spoils of Partition rejected the idea of Partition as a breaking apart, showing it to be a process in the remaking of society and state. Her third book, Bengal Diaspora, cowritten with Claire Alexander and Annu Jalais, challenged the idea of migration and resettlement as exceptional situations. Partition's Legacies can be seen as continuous with Chatterji's earlier work as well as a distillation and expansion of it. Chatterji is known for the elegance of her prose as much as for the sharpness of her insights into Indian history, and Partition's Legacies will enthrall everyone interested in modern India's apocalyptic past. "What emerges from the essays," David Washbrook writes in the introduction, "is often quite startling. The demarcation of Partition followed no master plan or even coherent strategy but was made up of myriad ad hoc decisions taken on the ground, often by obscure actors. Refugee policy, immigrant rights, and even definitions of national citizenship ... were produced by no deus ex machina but out of day-to-day struggles on the streets and in the courts."
The Partition of Bengal
Author: Debjani Sengupta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-22
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1316673871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.
A History of Bangladesh
Author: Willem van Schendel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1108620337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.
The Raj Quartet, Volume 4
Author: Paul Scott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998-05-22
Total Pages: 609
ISBN-13: 0226743446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.
Citizen Refugee
Author: Uditi Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108425615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.
Partition Voices
Author: Kavita Puri
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 140889906X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION 'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is' Sathnam Sanghera 'The most humane account of partition I've read ... We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer ________________________ Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent developments in the lives of those affected by partition. The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. But their memory of partition has been shrouded in silence. In her eye-opening and timely work, Kavita Puri uncovers remarkable testimonies from former subjects of the Raj who are now British citizens – including her own father. Weaving a tapestry of human experience over seven decades, Puri reveals a secret history of ruptured families and friendships, extraordinary journeys and daring rescue missions that reverberates with compassion and loss. It is a work that breaks the silence and confronts the difficult truths at the heart of Britain's shared past with South Asia.
The Indian Ideology
Author: Perry Anderson
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1788732715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world’s most populous democracy. Even critics of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But how well does the “Idea of India” correspond to the realities of the Union? In an iconoclastic intervention, Marxist historian Perry Anderson provides an unforgettable reading of the Subcontinent’s passage through Independence and the catastrophe of Partition, the idiosyncratic and corrosive vanities of Gandhi and Nehru, and the close interrelationship of Indian democracy and caste inequality. The Indian Ideology caused uproar on first publication in 2012, not least for breaking with euphemisms for Delhi’s occupation of Kashmir. This new, expanded edition includes the author’s reply to his critics, an interview with the Indian weekly Outlook, and a postscript on India under the rule of Narendra Modi.
The African Inheritance
Author: Ieuan Ll. Griffiths
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-09-30
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1134983115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica is a continent gripped by civil wars and widespread famine. The causes of many of the continent's problems are deep rooted and can be traced to Africa's colonial past, when European powers divided the spoils of the continent into separate sovereign states. The African Inheritance examines the effect this "balkanization" of Africa has had, and is having, on the political and economic well-being of the continent. From a brief history of pre-colonial Africa and its subsequent European partition and inevitable decolonization, the book discusses the consequences of such an inheritance: small and weak states, destructive secessionist movements, irredentism and African imperialism. Attempts to tackle these problems and assert independent development are inhibited by the colonial inheritance.
