Remembering partition :

Pandey, Gyanendra, 1949-

Remembering partition : violence, nationalism, and history in India / Gyanendra Pandey. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. - xiii, 218 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-211) and index.

1 By way of introduction 2 The three partitions of 1947 3 Historians' history 4 The evidence of the historian 5 Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946 6 Folding the national into the local: Delhi 1947 ... 1948; 7 Disciplining difference; 8 Constructing community

Gyan Pandey's book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India and how it is remembered. It is also a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. This is a book for historians of South Asia, sociologists, and all those concerned with the Indian subaltern story.

052180759X 0521002508 9780521002509


Nationalism
Communalism--India.--India.


India--History--Partition, 1947.

954.035 / PAN