Thread with a list on some histories of partition:
The other day I met someone who told me very little has been written on the partition of India. This is not the first time this has happened.
The other day I met someone who told me very little has been written on the partition of India. This is not the first time this has happened.
There are some areas of partition history that have received very little attention & partition studies will be a subject that continues to demand attention, but there is a lengthy list of books. I& #39;m putting some (not all) down here.
I will start with my teacher Joya Chatterji. Her work on partition has largely focused on Bengal, however her books and articles have a lot of insights into partition in general.
1. Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947;
1. Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947;
2. The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967.
3. & #39; "Dispersal” and the failure of rehabilitation: refugee camp-dwellers and squatters in West Bengal’, Modern Asian Studies.
3. & #39; "Dispersal” and the failure of rehabilitation: refugee camp-dwellers and squatters in West Bengal’, Modern Asian Studies.
4. ‘Dispositions and destinations: refugee agency and “mobility capital” in the Bengal diaspora, 1947–2007’, Comparative Studies in Society and History.
5. ‘New directions in partition studies’, History Workshop Journal, 67 (2009).
5. ‘New directions in partition studies’, History Workshop Journal, 67 (2009).
6. ‘Partition studies: prospects and pitfalls’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 73 (2014).
7. ‘Princes, subjects and Gandhi: alternatives to citizenship at the end of empire’, in Gandhi’s moral politics, ed. Naren Nanda, (New York: Routledge, 2017).
7. ‘Princes, subjects and Gandhi: alternatives to citizenship at the end of empire’, in Gandhi’s moral politics, ed. Naren Nanda, (New York: Routledge, 2017).
8.‘Right or charity? The debate over relief & rehabilitation in West Bengal, 1947-50’, in The partitions of memory: the afterlife of the division of India, ed. Suvir Kaul, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002).
9. ‘South Asian histories of citizenship, 1946–1970’, Historical Journal.
@OxfordYasmin& #39;s The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Sarah Ansari& #39;s Life After Partition: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh 1947 - 1962. Ansari is one of the very few historians who focuses on Sindh.
Sarah Ansari& #39;s Life After Partition: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh 1947 - 1962. Ansari is one of the very few historians who focuses on Sindh.
Vazira Fazila Zamindar The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
Ayesha Jalal: The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan
Faisal Devji: Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
Ayesha Jalal: The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan
Faisal Devji: Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea
Venkat Dhulipala: Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
@rkadelhi& #39;s, Since 1947: partition narratives among Punjabi migrants of Delhi
@rkadelhi& #39;s, Since 1947: partition narratives among Punjabi migrants of Delhi
Nandita Bhavnani: The making of exile: Sindhi Hindus and the partition of India
@uditi_sen& #39;s Citizen refugee: forging the Indian nation after partition
@uditi_sen& #39;s Citizen refugee: forging the Indian nation after partition
@kavpuri& #39;s Partition Voices: Untold British Stories
@KothariRita& #39;s The Burden of refuge, The Sindhi Hindus of Gujarat
Urvashi Butalia, The other side of silence: voices from the partition of India
David Gilmartin: Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan
@KothariRita& #39;s The Burden of refuge, The Sindhi Hindus of Gujarat
Urvashi Butalia, The other side of silence: voices from the partition of India
David Gilmartin: Empire and Islam: Punjab and the making of Pakistan
@NeetiNair& #39;s Changing homelands: Hindu politics and the partition of India
Ian Talbot & Gurharpal Singh: The partition of India
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India
Sumit Sarkar: Modern India
Ian Talbot & Gurharpal Singh: The partition of India
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay: From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India
Sumit Sarkar: Modern India
Haimanti Roy: Partitioned lives: migrants, refugees, citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65.
Tai Yong Tan, and Gyanesh Kudaisya, The aftermath of partition in South Asia
@pippavirdee& #39;s: From the ashes of 1947: reimagining Punjab
Tai Yong Tan, and Gyanesh Kudaisya, The aftermath of partition in South Asia
@pippavirdee& #39;s: From the ashes of 1947: reimagining Punjab
Penderel Moon: Divide and quit. On the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947
Mushirul Hasan (ed) : India& #39;s Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization
Anita Inder Singh: The Origins of the Partition of India 1936-47
Mushirul Hasan (ed) : India& #39;s Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization
Anita Inder Singh: The Origins of the Partition of India 1936-47
David Page: Prelude to Partition
G.D. Khosla: Stern reckoning
Urvashi Butalia (ed) : Partition: The Long Shadow
Menon & Bhasin: Borders and Boundaries: Women in India& #39;s Partition
Gyanendra Pandey: Remembering partition
Aanchal Malhotra: Remnants of partition
G.D. Khosla: Stern reckoning
Urvashi Butalia (ed) : Partition: The Long Shadow
Menon & Bhasin: Borders and Boundaries: Women in India& #39;s Partition
Gyanendra Pandey: Remembering partition
Aanchal Malhotra: Remnants of partition
Lucy Chester: Borders and conflict in South Asia
Suvir Kaul (ed) The partitions of memory
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Partition& #39;s post-amnesias
There are more, please add titles as you see fit.
Suvir Kaul (ed) The partitions of memory
Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Partition& #39;s post-amnesias
There are more, please add titles as you see fit.
Bidyut Chakrabarty: The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932– 1947
Anindita Dasgupta: Denial and resistance: Sylheti Partition & #39;refugees& #39; in Assam
Ashfaque Hossain: The Making and Unmaking of Assam-Bengal Borders and the Sylhet Referendum
Anindita Dasgupta: Denial and resistance: Sylheti Partition & #39;refugees& #39; in Assam
Ashfaque Hossain: The Making and Unmaking of Assam-Bengal Borders and the Sylhet Referendum
Willem van Schendel, The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia;
van Schendel: A history of Bangladesh
Tamina M Chowdhury: Indigenous Identity in South Asia Making claims in the colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts
van Schendel: A history of Bangladesh
Tamina M Chowdhury: Indigenous Identity in South Asia Making claims in the colonial Chittagong Hill Tracts
Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, ‘Partition and Gujarat: the tangled web of religious, caste, community and gender identities’, Journal of South Asian Studies