The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories

by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231138474
• ISBN13: 9780231138475
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"