Partition

Reliving the Partition in Eastern India: Memories of and Memoirs by Women across the Borders

Sharmistha Chatterjee Sriwastav
Rupkatha Journal
2020

Photographing India

Sunil Janah
Oxford University Press
2013

The 1947 Partition of British India: Forced Migration and Its Reverberations

Jennifer Leaning
Shubhangi Bhadada
Sage Publications India Private Ltd
2022

Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space

Hammad Nasar
Iftikhar Dad
Green Cardamom
2012

Homelands: Art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

Amy Tobin
Devika Singh
Kettle's Yard
2019

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.

Bureaucracy and Border Control: Crime, Police Reform and National Security in Kutch, 1948–52

Author(s): 
Farhana Ibrahim
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2017/15/exploring-borderlands-south-asia/bureaucracy-and-border-control.html

Studies on militarisation and borders in South Asia have often remained focused on zones of spectacular conflict such as Kashmir, or Punjab during the partition. This article tracks the production of a discourse on borders by those charged with border security such as the police and other senior bureaucracy in the decades following the partition.

End of the Postcolonial State

Author(s): 
Faisal Devji
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2021/44/50-years-liberation-bangladesh/end-postcolonial-state.html

Much of the scholarship on Bangladesh’s founding places it within a narrative of repetition. It either repeats the partitions of 1905 or 1947 or the creation of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states. This paper argues instead for the novelty of Bangladesh’s creation against the postcolonial state, suggesting that it opened up a new history at the global level in which decolonisation was replaced by civil war as the founding narrative for new states.

Forgetting Partition: Constitutional Amnesia and Nationalism

Author(s): 
Kanika Gauba
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2016/39/special-articles/forgetting-partition.html

History’s silence resonates in the textual silence of the Indian Constitution on the immense scale of violence and exodus accompanying the partition of the subcontinent, despite the contemporaneity of partition and constitution writing. Clearly discernible on a closer reading of the Constituent Assembly's debates are implicit influences of partition on key constitutional decisions, such as citizenship, political safeguards for religious minorities and provisions creating a strong central tendency in the union.

India, Pakistan, and a History of Water Sharing: Revisiting the Indus Water Treaty

Author(s): 
EPW Engage
Publisher/Sponsor: 
EPW Engage
www.epw.in/engage/article/india-pakistan-indus-water-treaty

Legal and political considerations make flouting the Indus Water Treaty easier said than done.

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