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Remembering Partition

Remembering Partition

Remembering Partition

Violence, Nationalism and History in India
Gyanendra Pandey, The Johns Hopkins University
January 2002
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Paperback
9780521002509

    Gyan Pandey's latest book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the partition of India in 1947, and how the preceding events have been documented. In the process, the author provides a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. He also investigates how local forms of community are established by the way in which violent events are remembered and written about. The book will be of interest to historians of South Asia, to sociologists and to anyone concerned with the Indian subaltern story.

    • Compelling and occasionally harrowing examination of genocidal violence in the Indian subcontinent
    • A critique of nationalism and its historiography
    • Written accessibly by one of the foremost scholars in Indian history

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    '[Pandey] has produced an important and influential study which will for many years influence the agenda of the 'history from beneath' approach to the history of partition.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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    Product details

    January 2002
    Paperback
    9780521002509
    236 pages
    228 × 152 × 18 mm
    0.375kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Acknowledgements
    • List of abbreviations
    • 1. By way of introduction
    • 2. The three partitions of 1947
    • 3. Historians' history
    • 4. The evidence of the historian
    • 5. Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946
    • 6. Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 1947–8
    • 7. Disciplining difference
    • 8. Constructing community
    • Select bibliography
    • Index.
      Author
    • Gyanendra Pandey , The Johns Hopkins University

      Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology and History at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and is the author of many publications including Hindus and Others: The Question of identity in India Today (1993) and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990).