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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kaushik Roy |
| ISBN: | 9780198077602 0198077602 |
| OCLC Number: | 768071508 |
| Description: | xliii, 276 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Introduction / Kaushik Roy -- The parting of the ways / G.D. Khosla -- Concluding review / Satish Saberwal -- Nationalism versus Communalism / Gyanendra Pandey -- Islam and Muslim separatism / Francis Robinson -- The local roots of the Pakistan movement: the Aligarh Muslim University / Mushirul Hasan -- The second partition of Bengal / Partha Chatterjee -- The 1947 United Bengal Movement: a thesis without a synthesis / Bidyut Chakrabarty -- The Sikhs and the prospect of Pakistan / Indu Banga -- The success of the Muslim League: June 1945 to March 1946 / Anita Inder Singh -- Towards partition: the cabinet mission / Penderel Moon -- Why Gandhi accepted the decision to partition India / Sucheta Mahajan. |
| Series Title: | Oxford in India readings., Debates in Indian history and society. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kaushik Roy. |
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Abstract:
This volume explores the timing and causes of the Partition of India in 1947 from the elections of 1936-7 to the acceptance of the Partition plan. It examines the major debates surrounding this momentous event and their changing nature over a period of time.
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