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The breakup of India and Palestine : the causes and legacies of partition / Edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan

By: Series: Studies in imperialismPublication details: Manchester Manchester University Press 2023Description: xv, 293 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781526170309 (hardback)
DDC classification:
  • 954.042
Contents:
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.
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BOOKs NLS General Stacks 954.042 KAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) HB Not For Loan Recommended by Prof. Dr. Arun K Thiruvengadam 39342

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.

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