
The breakup of India and Palestine
The causes and legacies of partition
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The breakup of India and Palestine
The causes and legacies of partition
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Lucy Chester
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Connecting the partitions of India and Palestine: institutions, policies, laws and people
- Part I The partition of British India
- Part II The partition of Palestine
- Part III The partitions of India and Palestine compared
- Part IV The consequences of partition for South Asia, the Middle East and beyond
- Afterword: Partition as imperial inheritance
- Index