UID:
almafu_9960945919202883
Format:
1 online resource (239 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-87202-8
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9786612872020
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0-231-51101-9
Series Statement:
Cultures of history
Content:
Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. ""India"" and ""Pakistan"" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. Yet this historical specificity of decolonization on the very making of a nationalized cartography of modern South Asia has largely gone unexamined. In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues t
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Translations/Transliterations; Introduction: The Place of Partition; The Making of Refugees, 1947; 1. Muslim Exodus from Delhi; 2. Hindu Exodus from Karachi; Moving People, Immovable Property; 3. Refugees, Boundaries, Citizens; 4. Economies of Displacement; Imagined Limits, Unimaginable Nations; 5. Passports and Boundaries; 6. The Phantasm of Passports; In Conclusion; 7. Moving Boundaries; Abbreviations in Notes; Notes; Selected Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-13847-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-13846-6
Language:
English
