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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.

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'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;

2. The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967.

3. ' "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).

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).

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's The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

Sarah Ansari'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

Venkat Dhulipala: Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India

@rkadelhi'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's Citizen refugee: forging the Indian nation after partition

@kavpuri's Partition Voices: Untold British Stories

@KothariRita'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'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

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'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'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'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'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 'refugees' 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

Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, ‘Partition and Gujarat: the tangled web of religious, caste, community and gender identities’, Journal of South Asian Studies

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