LEADER 04246nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910781653103321 005 20230725051153.0 010 $a0-674-06115-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061156 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048069 035 $a(OCoLC)754842141 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491780 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000534913 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11346944 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000534913 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520001 035 $a(PQKB)10047405 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300957 035 $a(DE-B1597)178244 035 $a(OCoLC)979575860 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061156 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300957 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491780 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048069 100 $a20101001d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aChanging homelands$b[electronic resource] $eHindu politics and the partition of India /$fNeeti Nair 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05779-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Loyalty and Anti- Colonial Nationalism --$t2. Negotiating a Minority Status --$t3. Religion and Non- Violence in Punjabi Politics --$t4. Towards an All- India Settlement --$t5. Partition Violence and the Question of Responsibility --$t6. Memory and the Search for Meaning in Post- Partition Delhi --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aChanging 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. 606 $aHindus$zIndia$zPunjab$xPolitics and government$y20th century 606 $aIdentity (Psychology)$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNationalism$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aReligion and politics$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aReligious minorities$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMuslims$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSikhs$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPunjab (India)$xPolitics and government$y20th century 607 $aIndia$xHistory$yPartition, 1947$xInfluence 607 $aPunjab (India)$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aHindus$xPolitics and government 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology)$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory 615 0$aReligious minorities$xHistory 615 0$aMuslims$xHistory 615 0$aSikhs$xHistory 676 $a954.04/2 700 $aNair$b Neeti$f1978-$01571743 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781653103321 996 $aChanging homelands$93846270 997 $aUNINA