Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests, both internal and international, that influenced the actions of the various major players, it highlights British efforts to maintain a grip on India even as the decolonization process spun out of control. Drawing on extensive archival research in India, Pakistan, and Britain, combined with innovative use of cartographic sources, the book paints a vivid picture of both the partition process and the Radcliffe line's impact on Punjab.
This book will be vital reading for scholars and students of colonialism, decolonization, partition, and borderlands studies, while providing anyone interested in South Asia's independence with a highly readable account of one of its most controversial episodes.
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Borders and conflict in South Asia
The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the partition of Punjab
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Borders and conflict in South Asia
The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the partition of Punjab
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Table of contents
- Front matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of maps
- General editor's introduction
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Glossary
- Note on terminology
- Maps
- Introduction
- āStanding on the edge of a volcanoā: the historical context of partition
- āThis is your country and it is up to you to decideā: the faƧade of South Asian responsibility
- āNobody had been paying any attention to the caseā: the boundary commission at work
- āWater was the keyā: Radcliffeās private deliberations
- āA political decision, and not a judicial oneā: the Radcliffe award
- āThe stories they carriedā: the aftermath
- āAn awful lot of thought should have gone into itā: alternatives to the Radcliffe award
- 'In between, on a bit of earth which had no nameā: the development of the Indo-Pakistani borderlands
- Imperial epitaphs: Cyril Radcliffe and the end of empire
- Conclusion: āNo such deedsā: responsibility and remembrance
- Bibliography
- Index
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