Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics, and the Partition of IndiaThis volume is a selection of the most significant writings on India's Partition. It rexamines why a people with a history of shared living and overlapping cultures responded so intensely to symbols of discord and experienced one of the most cataclysmic events in twentieth century history. |
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Contents
Indias Partition Revisited | 1 |
Memories of a Fragmented Nation | 26 |
Thoughts on Pakistan | 47 |
Copyright | |
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References to this book
Gender, Culture and Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism Siobhán Mullally No preview available - 2006 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics, and the Partition of India Oxford India paperbacks |
| Editor | Mushirul Hasan |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 3, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195651030, 9780195651034 |
| Length | 393 pages |
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