Remembering Partition
Violence, Nationalism and History in India
Through an investigation of the violence that marked the partition of British India in 1947, this book analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalisation of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered (or forgotten) in order to ensure the unity of the collective subject - community or nation. Stressing the continuous entanglement of 'event' and 'interpretation', the author emphasises both the enormity of the violence of 1947 and its shifting meanings and contours. The book provides a sustained critique of the procedures of history-writing and nationalist myth-making on the question of violence,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-02920-2
- EAN: 9780511029202
- Produktnummer: 13825480
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'617 KB
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