{"product_id":"inventing-boundaries-gender-politics-and-the-partition-of-india","title":"Inventing Boundaries - Gender, Politics and the Partition of India","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Mushirul Hasan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2000\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 393\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195651030\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection reflects on the forces that marked the prelude to partition, and introduces the different meanings attached to the Pakistan movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a selection of the most significant writings on India's partition.  It reconsiders important questions: Why did a people living with a long-standing history of shared living respond to symbols of discord and disunity at a particular historical juncture? Why did a society with its splendidly plural heritage become the site of one of the most cataclysmic events in twentieth-century history? Why was the innocence of the minds, in the words of a common man in Sakhua village in Mymensingh, 'banished after so many years of living together?   Why did the structure of the human mind change overnight? How could that land become somebody else's forever?' Just 'Just one line drawn on the map and my home becomes a foreign country!'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection also reflects on the forces that marked the prelude to partition, brings into focus the diversity of political currents in the 1940s, and introduces the different meanings attached to the Pakistan movement.  Its value is greatly enhanced by the prologue and the introduction that examine the more recent historiographical debates, evaluate old theories on how and why the parathion happened, and suggest areas of fresh research and inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The final section in the collection draws upon some evocative literary pieces to reveal as it were, the other face of freedom. 'Siyah Hashaye' or 'Black Margins' by Saadat Hasan Manto is one of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EDITOR:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMushirul Hasan is Professor of Modern Indian History at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.  He is author of several books, including Nationalism and Communal Politics in India.  He is currently doing research on the intellectual history of Islam in modern India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrologue : India's Partition Revisited\u003cbr\u003eMushirul Hasan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction : Memories of a Fragmented Nation : Rewriting the Histories of India's Partition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMushirul Hasan\u003cbr\u003ePART I \u003cbr\u003eTHE POLEMIC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003eThoughts on Pakistan\u003cbr\u003eB.R. Ambedkar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003eIs India Geographically One?\u003cbr\u003eDr Kazi Said-Ud-Din Ahmad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003eThe Communal Pattern of India\u003cbr\u003eKazi Said-Ud-Din Ahmad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003eSome Aspects of Pakistan\u003cbr\u003eJamil-Ud-Din Ahmad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003eAn Economist Looks at Pakistan\u003cbr\u003eRadha Kamal Mukerjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003eA Case for Congress - League Unity\u003cbr\u003eSajjad Zaheer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE RECKONING\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003eNegotiating with Its Past and Present : The Changing Profile of the Aligarh Muslim University\u003cbr\u003eMushirul Hasan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003eThe Attitude of the Jam iyyat-i Ulama-i Hind to the Indian National Movement and the Establishment of Pakistan\u003cbr\u003eYohanan Friedmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003eCommunity, State, and Gender : Some Reflections on the Partition of India\u003cbr\u003eUrvashi Bhutalia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X\u003cbr\u003eRecovery, Rupture, Resistance : The Indian State and the Abduction of Women During Partition\u003cbr\u003eRitu Menon and Kamla Bhasin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI\u003cbr\u003eBusinessmen and the Partition of India\u003cbr\u003eClaude Markovits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII\u003cbr\u003eHyderabad Today\u003cbr\u003eAlec Reid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII\u003cbr\u003ePunjabi Refugees and the Urban Development of Greater Delhi\u003cbr\u003eV.N. Datta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE REPINING\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003eBlack Margins\u003cbr\u003eSaadat Hasan Manto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV\u003cbr\u003eAn Unwritten Epic\u003cbr\u003eIntizar Husain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI\u003cbr\u003eRemembered Villages : Representation of Hindu-Bengali Memories in the \u003cbr\u003eAftermath of the Partition\u003cbr\u003eDipesh Chakrabarty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII\u003cbr\u003eObjectifying Troubling Memories : An Interview with Bhisham Sahni\u003cbr\u003eAlok Bhalla\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII\u003cbr\u003eThe Trauma of Independence : Some Aspects of Progressive Hindi Literature 1945 - 7\u003cbr\u003eAlok Rai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX\u003cbr\u003eIn the Heat of Fratricide : The Literature of India's Partition Burning Freshly\u003cbr\u003eJason Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Mushirul Hasan \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153495781744,"sku":"3808","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/5395.jpg?v=1793910383","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/inventing-boundaries-gender-politics-and-the-partition-of-india","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}