Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan

by William Gould and Sarah Ansari

Book Overview

The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 131664717X
• ISBN13: 9781316647172
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"