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1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Series |
Cultures of history
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Cultures of history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : The place of partition -- pt. 1. The making of refugees, 1947. -- Muslim exodus from Delhi -- Hindu exodus from Karachi -- pt. 2. Moving people, immovable property. -- Refugees, boundaries, citizens -- Economics of displacement -- pt. 3. Imagined limits, unimaginable nations. -- Passports and boundaries -- The phantasm of passports -- pt. 4. In conclusion. -- Moving boundaries. |
Summary |
"Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. Yet this historical specificity of decolonization on the very making of a nationalized cartography of modern South Asia has largely gone unexamined. In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories with north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property."--Book cover. |
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Reproduction |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Partition of India (India : 1947) |
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India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
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Refugees -- India.
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Refugees. |
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India. |
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Refugees -- Pakistan.
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Pakistan. |
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India -- Boundaries -- Pakistan.
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Boundaries. |
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Pakistan -- Boundaries -- India.
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Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1900-1950 |
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Geschichte 1947 |
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1947 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9780231511018 0231511019 (DLC) 2007012702 (OCoLC)122261773 |
ISBN |
9780231511018 electronic book |
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0231511019 electronic book |
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9780231138468 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231138466 cloth alkaline paper |
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