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Decolonisation and the politics of transition in South Asia / edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

Contributor(s): Series: Critical thinking in South Asian historyPublisher: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2016Description: xiv, 440 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9788125062523 (hbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.04 BAN
Contents:
Introduction I. Independence and Partition: 1.Azadi, Batwara or Vibhajan: What Happened on 14 15 August 1947 in the Indian Subcontinent? - 2. Partition and Independence in Delhi: 1947 48- 3.Picking up the Pieces: Pakistan, 1947 49- II. Democracy, Development and Politics- 4. The Road Not Taken- 5. Democracy s Biggest Gamble- 6. In the Name of Politics- 7. India- 8.State and the Making of Communist Politics in India, 1947 57- III. Community, Citizenship and Conflict: 9. The Crisis of Hindu Nationalism in Post-Partition India, 1947 52- 10. B. R. Ambedkar and Indian Democracy- 11. The Assassination of Gandhi and the Early Signs of Crisis in Muslim Nationalism in East Pakistan- 12. Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh- 13. Representing Muslims in Postcolonial India- 14. The Jewel of the East Yet has its Flaws- Bibliography- Index.
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Introduction
I. Independence and Partition:
1.Azadi, Batwara or Vibhajan: What Happened on 14 15 August 1947 in the Indian Subcontinent? -
2. Partition and Independence in Delhi: 1947 48-
3.Picking up the Pieces: Pakistan, 1947 49-
II. Democracy, Development and Politics-
4. The Road Not Taken-
5. Democracy s Biggest Gamble-
6. In the Name of Politics-
7. India-
8.State and the Making of Communist Politics in India, 1947 57-
III. Community, Citizenship and Conflict:
9. The Crisis of Hindu Nationalism in Post-Partition India, 1947 52-
10. B. R. Ambedkar and Indian Democracy-
11. The Assassination of Gandhi and the Early Signs of Crisis in Muslim Nationalism in East Pakistan-
12. Religion and Language in the Formation of Nationhood in Pakistan and Bangladesh-
13. Representing Muslims in Postcolonial India-
14. The Jewel of the East Yet has its Flaws-
Bibliography-
Index.