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Changing homelands [[electronic resource] ] : Hindu politics and the partition of India / / Neeti Nair



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Autore: Nair Neeti <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Changing homelands [[electronic resource] ] : Hindu politics and the partition of India / / Neeti Nair Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (356 p.)
Disciplina: 954.04/2
Soggetto topico: Hindus - India - Punjab - Politics and government - 20th century
Identity (Psychology) - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Nationalism - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Religion and politics - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Religious minorities - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Muslims - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Sikhs - India - Punjab - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Punjab (India) Politics and government 20th century
India History Partition, 1947 Influence
Punjab (India) Ethnic relations History 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Changing 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Changing homelands  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-06115-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457823703321
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