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Remembering partition : violence, nationalism, and history in India / Gyanendra Pandey.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: xiii, 218 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 052180759X
  • 0521002508
  • 9780521002509
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.035 21 PAN
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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

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