The breakup of India and Palestine : the causes and legacies of partition / edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kattan, Victor, editor.

Ranjan, Amit (Researcher on South Asia), editor.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in Imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--Partition, 1947.

India.

Palestine--History--Partition, 1947.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of Nottingham.

Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.

Summary:

This is a study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

List of contributors

Foreword by Lucy Chester

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Connecting the partitions of India and Palestine

Part I: The partition of British India

1 The Mountbatten Viceroyalty reconsidered

2 The paradigmatic partition? The Pakistan demand revisited

Part II: The partition of Palestine

3 Partition and the question of international governance

4 Fighting for Palestine as a holy duty? The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the partition of Palestine in 1947

Part III: The partitions of India and Palestine compared

5 The communal question and partition in British India and mandate Palestine

6 India’s dilemmas of pragmatism v. principles

Part IV: The consequences of partition for South Asia, the Middle East and beyond

7 The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia

8 ‘Unfinished’ partition

9 Civil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 War in Palestine from a global perspective

10 Partitioned identities? Regional, caste and national identity in Pakistan

Afterword

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781526170323

1526170329

OCLC:

1397049759