Freedom, Trauma, Continuities
Northern India and Independence
1st Edition
Published on 9. July 1998
Book
Hardback
244 pages
978-0-7619-9225-7 (ISBN)
Description
The momentous events of India achieving independence and the simultaneous partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 have primarily been studied from the political perspective. This path-breaking volume explores neglected aspects of the tremendous upheavals that accompanied these events, concentrating on popular perceptions and psychological impacts.
The contributors consider aspects of the appalling massacres which accompanied Partition and Independence, the ensuing mass migrations; efforts to resettle the refugees in the Punjab, Bengal and Sind; and lingering memories of homes abandoned. The subsequent essay considers the integration of the Princely States into the Indian Union, a process which had few counterparts elsewhere.
The remaining essays study the Congress Government in Bihar in the forties; the roots of Pakistan's civil-military state; and the attitude of Indian big business.
Overall, this volume significantly widens the perspectives that focus on the crucial
decade of the forties in the history of the subcontinent.
The contributors consider aspects of the appalling massacres which accompanied Partition and Independence, the ensuing mass migrations; efforts to resettle the refugees in the Punjab, Bengal and Sind; and lingering memories of homes abandoned. The subsequent essay considers the integration of the Princely States into the Indian Union, a process which had few counterparts elsewhere.
The remaining essays study the Congress Government in Bihar in the forties; the roots of Pakistan's civil-military state; and the attitude of Indian big business.
Overall, this volume significantly widens the perspectives that focus on the crucial
decade of the forties in the history of the subcontinent.
Reviews / Votes
`Low and Brasted bring together a stimulating collection of essays seeking to re-examine the events of Independence and Partition and to challenge some of the more orthodox or conservative accounts of the social and political processes dominating Northern India during the 1940s' - Commonwealth & Comparitive PoliticsMore details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
523 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9225-7 (9780761992257)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Digging Deeper - D A Low
Northern India in the 1940s
`August Anarchy' - Swarna Aiyar
The Partition Massacres in Punjab, 1947
Literature and the Human Drama of the 1947 Partition - Ian Talbot
`The Chief Sufferers' - Andrew J Major
Abduction of Women during the Partition of the Punjab
From Displacement to `Development' - Gyanesh Kudaisya
East Punjab Countryside after Partition, 1947-67
Partition, Migration and Refugees - Sarah Ansari
Responses to the Arrival of Muhajirs in Sind during 1947-48
Divided Landscapes, Fragmented Identities - Gyanesh Kudaisya
East Bengal Refugees and Their Rehabilitation in India, 1947-79
Remembered Villages - Dipesh Chakrabarty
Representations of Hindu-Bengali Memories in the Aftermath of the Partition
The Integration of the Princely States - Ian Copland
A `Bloodless Revolution'?
Bihar in the 1940s - Vinita Damodaran
Communities, Riots and the State
Punjab and the Making of Pakistan - Tan Tai Yong
The Roots of a Civil-Military State
G D Birla, Big Business and India's Partition - Medha Malik Kudaisya
Northern India in the 1940s
`August Anarchy' - Swarna Aiyar
The Partition Massacres in Punjab, 1947
Literature and the Human Drama of the 1947 Partition - Ian Talbot
`The Chief Sufferers' - Andrew J Major
Abduction of Women during the Partition of the Punjab
From Displacement to `Development' - Gyanesh Kudaisya
East Punjab Countryside after Partition, 1947-67
Partition, Migration and Refugees - Sarah Ansari
Responses to the Arrival of Muhajirs in Sind during 1947-48
Divided Landscapes, Fragmented Identities - Gyanesh Kudaisya
East Bengal Refugees and Their Rehabilitation in India, 1947-79
Remembered Villages - Dipesh Chakrabarty
Representations of Hindu-Bengali Memories in the Aftermath of the Partition
The Integration of the Princely States - Ian Copland
A `Bloodless Revolution'?
Bihar in the 1940s - Vinita Damodaran
Communities, Riots and the State
Punjab and the Making of Pakistan - Tan Tai Yong
The Roots of a Civil-Military State
G D Birla, Big Business and India's Partition - Medha Malik Kudaisya