Railways

The Transfer of Jodhpur Railways, 1947–48: Denials, Delays and Divisions

Author(s): 
Rakesh Ankit
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2017/40/special-articles/transfer-jodhpur-railways-1947%E2%80%9348.html

The process of partition between India and Pakistan, that is, dividing up material assets, remains an under-written subject, barring its border-building aspects. While the old scholarship offered an adversarial account of this exercise, the recent attempts revise this narrative by stressing upon the cooperation evinced by the two sides. Where the former found antagonism, the latter has sought to locate some mutually agreed method in the madness.

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