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Kattan, Victor and Ranjan, Amit (Ed's.)

The breakup of India and Palestine : the causes and legacies of partition / Edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan - Manchester Manchester University Press 2023 - xv, 293 pages ; 24 cm. - Studies in imperialism .

List of contributors;
Foreword by Lucy Chester;
Acknowledgements;
Introduction: Connecting the partitions of India and Palestine: institutions, policies, laws and people – Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan;
Part I The partition of British India:
1 The Mountbatten Viceroyalty reconsidered: personality, prestige and strategic vision in the partition of India – Ian Talbot;
2 The paradigmatic partition? The Pakistan demand revisited – Ayesha Jalal;
Part II The partition of Palestine:
3 Partition and the question of international governance: the 1947 United Nations Special Committee on Palestine – Laura Robson;
4 Fighting for Palestine as a holy duty? The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the partition of Palestine in 1947 – Mohamed-Ali Adraoui;
Part III The partitions of India and Palestine compared:
5 The communal question and partition in British India and mandate Palestine – Amrita Shodhan;
6 India’s dilemmas of pragmatism v. principles: Nehru’s preference for a partitioned India but a federal Palestine – P. R. Kumaraswamy;
Part IV The consequences of partition for South Asia, the Middle East and beyond:
7 The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia – Victor Kattan;
8 ‘Unfinished’ partition: territorial disputes, unequal citizens and the rise of majoritarian nationalism in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – Amit Ranjan;
9 Civil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 war in Palestine from a global perspective – Arie M. Dubnov;
10 Partitioned identities? Regional, caste and national identity in Pakistan – Iqbal Singh Sevea;
Afterword: Partition as imperial inheritance – Penny Sinanoglou;
Index.


ISBN: 9781526170309 (hardback)

Dewey Class. No.: 954.042