INDIA'S PARTITION - Presentation read at the symposium “75 Years of India and Palestine Partitions”, Naples 3 November 2022 (original) (raw)
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A Revised History of the Partition of India in 1947: A Trailor of Things To Come
A Woke-Leftist journal on the internet, thewire.in, has taken up the task of promoting attempts to revise the history of the Partition of India in 1947. According to this article, and the books it espouses, it was originally the tendency of Hindus to consider their religion "superior", and to treat the Muslims as invaders, which sowed the seeds of Partition.
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The British divided and quit India in 1947. The Partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volumeby two highly regarded scholars in this fieldtells the story of Partition through the events that led up to it and the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and resettlement. In a new shift in the understanding of this seminal moment, the book also explores the legacies of Partition which continue to resonate today in the fractured lives of individuals and communities, and more broadly in the relationship between India and Pakistan and the ongoing conflict over contested sites such as Jammu and Kashmir. In conclusion, the book reflects on the general implications of partition as a political solution to ethnic and religious conflict. The book, which is accompanied by photographs, maps and a chronology of major events, is intended for students as a portal into the history and politics of the Asian region.
INDIAN PARTITION of 1947 - A tragedy for Indian Sub-Continent
Indian Partition - A Tragedy for all, 2023
I realize that the title and the theme of my first series of deliberations will raise many eyebrows, and I may even receive scorn from people, both who know me, as well as from total strangers. I am daring to talk on a sensitive subject, that is a concern of life and death for 42 million Muslims of the sub-Continent. This excludes the 16 million in Bangladesh, who were lucky to chart their own path, and went on their own independent way. Muslims in India, and Pakistan are not that lucky. Both find themselves in different kinds of quandaries and blind alleys, with no immediate ray of hope. The problem is of immense, immediate, and dangerous consequences to both groups of Muslims. This is a non-emotional take on the Topic, hoping to start a scholarly debate based on ground realities.
Anita Inder Singh " s The Partition of India, the book under review, was published more than a decade ago. A reassessment of this thesis after so many years, however, continues to be both timely and necessary since the subject, the partition of India, remains relevant in contemporary Indian politics, mainly for four reasons: firstly, the vast body of partition literature continues to dominate South Asian studies, which includes not only history, but also law and sociology. Secondly, this book places the study of India " s partition in the backdrop of the partitions of other European countries through the twentieth century that makes this study extremely relevant and suitable for review more than a decade after its original publication. Thirdly, the study of South Asian politics affecting and affected by the partition needs to be explained and reviewed freshly to reveal the causes that went into the making of the vivisection. And fourthly, this book continues to be relevant since the partition still haunts the public memory of numerous Indians, quite a few of whom lived in this subcontinent at the time of the vivisection. The relevance of the topic, given the magnitude of the crisis and its aftereffects, does not diminish in merely a decade. This book offers a well crafted explanation of the course of events that eventually led to the division of two of the largest and most densely populated provinces of British India at the time of the India " s independence from British rule in the middle of the twentieth century. Written from the point of view of high politics, this book offers a plausible explanation of the factors that led to the endgame of empire and its final denouement, leading to the creation of India and Pakistan, the two successor states of the British Empire in South Asia. The author reveals not only a detailed but also a nuanced grasp over the development of political events that were responsible for the first partition of the Punjab and the second partition of Bengal in 1947. These two vivisections adversely affected the lives of millions of Indians in the aftermath of the dismantling of an empire, changing the course of the history and politics of South Asia in a way that few other partitioned provinces or regions in the world have had to cope with in the last century.
This article seeks to shed light on the role a particular historical event can play in conferring legitimacy to the politics of communal and national animosities and hostilities. The Partition of India in 1947 was, on the one hand, a gory consummation of a long process of mutual demonising and dehumanising by Hindu and Muslim extremists. On the other, in the post-independence era, it became a model of violent con ict resolution invoked and emulated by ethnic and religious extremists and the hawkish establishments of India and Pakistan.
Lessons from India's Partition by Nasim Yousaf
The partition of India led to slaughter, rape, and countless atrocities in the region; it further resulted in the Kashmir issue and bitter rivalry between a nuclear Pakistan and India. The tragic episode provides a lesson for the world to learn from. to Allama Mashriqi's selfless ideology and vision of a united India, we could undo the devastating effects of partition. The Kashmir issue would be resolved, the potential for nuclear war between the two neighboring countries would disappear, and the threat of terrorism could be eradicated jointly. Unification would thus finally bring much-needed political, social, and economic stability to the South Asian region, and have far-reaching benefits for the world at large.
Dreams, Memories and Legacies: Partitioning India
Jacobsen, Knut A. Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India., 2016
This chapter examines the dreams, memories and legacies of partitioning the Punjab. It explores the expectations people had and the results of brutal and violent partition, which divided the people of Punjab.
Journal of Migration Affairs , 2023
Even after 75 years, the study of the Partition of British India in 1947 remains an ambitious project for many scholars. Over the years, not only historians but also people trained in other academic disciplines have attempted to interpret the Partition in their ways. As a result, there is a deluge of literature on the theme; nevertheless, scholars' interest in the Partition study will not end because many dimensions remain unveiled. Moreover, the "long shadow" of the Partition impacts the politics and social relationships in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Looking at the Partition and its aftermath in Bengal, Anindita's book is a collection of scrupulously written articles.