Inventing boundaries : gender, politics, and the partition of India

This 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. This is a selection of writings on India's partition. It reconsiders why a people with a history of shared living responded to symbols of discord and disunity at a particular historical juncture? And why a society with plural heritage became the site of a cataclysmic events in 20th-century history? This collection reflects on the forces that marked the prelude to partition, bringing into focus the diversity of political currents in the 1940s, and introduces the different meanings attached to the Pakistan movement. Contributed Articles. Edited By Mushirul Hasan. Includes Bibliographical References.