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Author Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali, author.

Title The long partition and the making of modern South Asia : refugees, boundaries, histories / Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Edition Paperback edition
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2010
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cultures of history
Cultures of history.
Contents Introduction : The place of partition -- pt. 1. The making of refugees, 1947. -- Muslim exodus from Delhi -- Hindu exodus from Karachi -- pt. 2. Moving people, immovable property. -- Refugees, boundaries, citizens -- Economics of displacement -- pt. 3. Imagined limits, unimaginable nations. -- Passports and boundaries -- The phantasm of passports -- pt. 4. In conclusion. -- Moving boundaries
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 that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories with north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property."--Book cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed August 24, 2022)
Subject Refugees -- India
Refugees -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Boundaries
Refugees
Staatenteilung
Flüchtling
Teilung
Delingen (politieke geografie)
Natievorming.
Flüchtling.
Staat.
Teilung.
SUBJECT India -- History -- Partition, 1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291
India -- Boundaries -- Pakistan -- Pāṭa
Pakistan -- Boundaries -- India
Subject India
Pakistan
Indien
Pakistan
Pakistan.
India.
Indien.
Pakistan.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231511018
0231511019
0231138474
9780231138475
1282872028
9781282872028
9786612872020
6612872020