The Breakup of India and Palestine

The Causes and Legacies of Partition

Victor Kattan, Amit Ranjan (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7030-9 (ISBN)

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These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power. -- .

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. -- .

Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of Nottingham Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore -- .

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 -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Imperialism
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5261-7030-2 / 1526170302
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-7030-9 / 9781526170309
Zustand	Neuware