| Autore |
Fitzpatrick Hannah
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Newark : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2024
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (211 pages)
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| Disciplina |
954.04/2
950
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| Collana |
RGS-IBG Book Series
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| Soggetto topico |
Cartography - India - History - 20th century
Cartography - Pakistan - History - 20th century
Partition, Territorial
Historical geography
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| ISBN |
9781119673866
1119673860
9781119673859
1119673852
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| 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.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911020346303321 |
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Mapping Partition : Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan
