04219nam 2200733Ia 450 991081102250332120230725051153.00-674-06115-210.4159/harvard.9780674061156(CKB)2550000000048069(OCoLC)754842141(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491780(SSID)ssj0000534913(PQKBManifestationID)11346944(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534913(PQKBWorkID)10520001(PQKB)10047405(MiAaPQ)EBC3300957(DE-B1597)178244(OCoLC)979575860(DE-B1597)9780674061156(Au-PeEL)EBL3300957(CaPaEBR)ebr10491780(EXLCZ)99255000000004806920101001d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrChanging homelands Hindu politics and the partition of India /Neeti NairCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20111 online resource (356 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-05779-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --Abbreviations --Introduction --1. Loyalty and Anti- Colonial Nationalism --2. Negotiating a Minority Status --3. Religion and Non- Violence in Punjabi Politics --4. Towards an All- India Settlement --5. Partition Violence and the Question of Responsibility --6. Memory and the Search for Meaning in Post- Partition Delhi --Conclusion --Acknowledgments --Notes --Glossary --Selected Bibliography --IndexChanging Homelands offers a startling new perspective on what was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In this highly readable account of the partition in the Punjab, Neeti Nair rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, the idea of partition was a very late, stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.In tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the entrenched view that Muslims were responsible for the partition of India. Some powerful Punjabi Hindus also preferred partition and contributed to its adoption. Almost no one, however, foresaw the deaths and devastation that would follow in its wake.Though much has been written on the politics of the Muslim and Sikh communities in the Punjab, Nair is the first historian to focus on the Hindu minority, both before and long after the divide of 1947. She engages with politics in post-Partition India by drawing from oral histories that reveal the complex relationship between memory and history-a relationship that continues to inform politics between India and Pakistan.HindusIndiaPunjabPolitics and government20th centuryIdentity (Psychology)IndiaPunjabHistory20th centuryNationalismIndiaPunjabHistory20th centuryReligion and politicsIndiaPunjabHistory20th centuryReligious minoritiesIndiaPunjabHistory20th centuryMuslimsIndiaPunjabHistory20th centurySikhsIndiaPunjabHistory20th centuryPunjab (India)Politics and government20th centuryIndiaHistoryPartition, 1947InfluencePunjab (India)Ethnic relationsHistory20th centuryHindusPolitics and governmentIdentity (Psychology)HistoryNationalismHistoryReligion and politicsHistoryReligious minoritiesHistoryMuslimsHistorySikhsHistory954.04/2Nair Neeti1978-1601351MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811022503321Changing homelands3924921UNINA