The long partition and the making of modern South Asia : refugees, boundaries, histories / Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaminder, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali.

Series:

Cultures of history.

Cultures of history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--India.

Refugees.

Refugees--Pakistan.

India--History--Partition, 1947.

India.

India--Boundaries--Pakistan.

Pakistan--Boundaries--India.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2010, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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 t

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Translations/Transliterations; Introduction: The Place of Partition; The Making of Refugees, 1947; 1. Muslim Exodus from Delhi; 2. Hindu Exodus from Karachi; Moving People, Immovable Property; 3. Refugees, Boundaries, Citizens; 4. Economies of Displacement; Imagined Limits, Unimaginable Nations; 5. Passports and Boundaries; 6. The Phantasm of Passports; In Conclusion; 7. Moving Boundaries; Abbreviations in Notes; Notes; Selected Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612872020

9781282872028

1282872028

9780231511018

0231511019

OCLC:

630927040