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The Breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition

The Breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition

Name: The Breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526191106
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Author: Victor Kattan; Amit Ranjan
ISBN: 9781526191106

Edited by Victor Kattan · Amit Ranjan

Manchester University Press June 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781526191106
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication: June 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies.

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