Remembering Partition
Remembering Partition
Violence, Nationalism and History in India
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
Reviews & endorsements
'[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
Product details
January 2002Paperback
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.
