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020			_a9781526170309 (hardback)
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100			_aKattan, Victor and Ranjan, Amit (Ed's.)
245			_a The breakup of India and Palestine : the causes and legacies of partition / _cEdited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan
260			_aManchester _bManchester University Press _c2023
300			_a xv, 293 pages ; _c24 cm.
365			_bRs. 9684.00
440			_a Studies in imperialism
505			_aList 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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