Changing Homelands : Hindu Politics and the Partition of India / Neeti Nair.
Nair, Neeti, author.
2011
DS485.P87 N344 2011eb
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Title Changing Homelands : Hindu Politics and the Partition of India / Neeti Nair.
Author Nair, Neeti, author.
ISBN 9780674061156
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061156
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 3 halftones, 4 maps
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674061156 doi
Call Number DS485.P87 N344 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.04/2
Summary 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.
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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

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