Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India

by Gyanendra Pandey

Overview

Gyan Pandey's latest book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the partition of India in 1947, and how the preceding events have been documented. In the process, the author provides a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. He also investigates how local forms of community are established by the way in which violent events are remembered and written about. The book will be of interest to historians of South Asia, to sociologists and to anyone concerned with the Indian subaltern story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521807593
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/22/2001
Series:	Contemporary South Asia , #7
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.55(d)
Lexile:	1540L (what's this?)

About the Author

Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology and History at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and is the author of many publications including Hindus and Others: The Question of identity in India Today (1993) and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. By way of introduction; 2. The three partitions of 1947; 3. Historians' history; 4. The evidence of the historian; 5. Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946; 6. Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 1947–8; 7. Disciplining difference; 8. Constructing community; Select bibliography; Index.

Editorial Reviews

'[Pandey] has produced an important and influential study which will for many years influence the agenda of the 'history from beneath' approach to the history of partition.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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