The breakup of India and Palestine : the causes and legacies of partition /: the causes and legacies of partition. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Victor Kattan, Amit Ranjan.
• Editors: Kattan, Victor; (Researcher on South Asia), Ranjan, Amit
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 954.042; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics; Middle Eastern History; Asian History; Comparative Politics; India -- History -- Partition, 1947-; Palestine -- History -- Partition, 1947
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526170316; 9781526170323
• Related ISBNs: 9781526170309
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