Mapping Partition : Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan

• Autore: Fitzpatrick Hannah
• Pubblicazione: Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Disciplina: 954.04/2; 950
• Soggetto topico: Cartography - India - History - 20th century; Cartography - Pakistan - History - 20th century; Partition, Territorial; Historical geography
• Soggetto geografico: India Politics and government History 20th century; Pakistan Politics and government History 20th century
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: Remapping Partition -- Introduction -- The Unmaking of British India -- Historicising Partition Historiography -- Geographies of Empire, Colonialism, and Decolonisation -- Critical Cartography and Map Histories -- Doing Historical Geographies of Partition -- References -- Chapter Two: Surveying and Boundary-Making in Colonial India -- Introduction -- Constructing Colonial Punjab -- Counting, Surveying and Mapping India -- Histories of Gazetteers in 19th-Century India -- Early Gazetteers -- Geography in the Service of Empire -- Naming and Placing 'Difference' -- Thomas Holdich and the Colonial Frontier -- Stephen B. Jones and the Art and Science of Boundary-Making -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Three: Territorialising India and Pakistan -- Introduction -- Indian Muslim Reform and Revival in the 19th Century -- The Two-Nation Theory -- Problems of Scale: Difference, Representation and Electoral Politics -- The Idea and Geographical Shape of Pakistan, 1930-1947 -- Choudhary Rahmat Ali and the 'Continent of Dinia' -- Jinnah and the Lahore Declaration -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Four: Geographies of the Punjab Boundary Commission -- Introduction -- The Punjab and Bengal Boundary Commissions -- The Terms of Reference for the Boundary Commissions -- Challenges to the Terms of Reference -- Concerns of Infrastructure -- Concerns of Population -- Reading the Maps of the Punjab Boundary Commission -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Five: Oskar Spate, the Muslim League and Geographical Expertise -- Introduction -- Oskar Spate and Geography at the End of Empire -- Spate on India Before 1947 -- Spate and the Boundary Commission -- The Case for Qadian to Go to Pakistan. ; Amritsar: 'The Key to the Whole Boundary Problem' -- Spate's Strategic Maps and Issues of Defence -- Visible Boundaries -- Deconstructing the Red Line -- Assessing the Sikh Claims -- From Lahore to Simla -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Six: Partition to Partitions: New Avenues for Historical Geography -- Introduction -- The Problem with 'Expertise' -- Bridging the Gap: Historical Geographies of Partition -- References -- Index -- EULA.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Mapping Partition delivers the first in-depth geographical account of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. The book explores the impact of colonial geography and geographers on the boundary, both during the partition process and in the period preceding it. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hannah Fitzpatrick argues that colonial geographical knowledge underpinned the partition process in heretofore unacknowledged ways. The author also discusses the consequences of placing different ethnic, communal, and linguistic groups onto the colonial map and the growing importance of majority and minority populations in representative democratic politics. Mapping Partition: Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan is required reading for students and researchers studying geography, colonial and imperial history, South Asian studies, and interdisciplinary border studies"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Mapping Partition
• ISBN: 1-119-67386-0; 1-119-67385-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910877727903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series