Mapping Partition (eBook)

Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan

Hannah Fitzpatrick (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
208 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-119-67384-2 (ISBN)

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MAPPING PARTITION

'A hugely productive partnership between geography and history, 'Mapping Partition' does a great service to the field of Partition studies - it leaves us in no doubt about both the long-term cartographical processes that contributed to how South Asia was divided in 1947, and the importance of bringing a geographer's insights to bear on this complex history of boundary making.'
Professor Sarah Ansari, Professor of History (South Asia), Royal Holloway University of London

'Fitzpatrick produces spatial readings of partition's knowledge formations, geopolitical imaginaries, administrative cartography, and legal geographical expertise. These enrich the histories and geographies of partition through painstaking archival, textual, and visual analysis which will resonate far beyond historical geography and South Asian studies.'
Professor Stephen Legg, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham

Mapping Partition delivers the first in-depth geographical account of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. The book explores the impact of colonial geography and geographers on the boundary, both during the partition process and in the period preceding it.

Drawing on extensive archival research, Hannah Fitzpatrick argues that colonial geographical knowledge underpinned the partition process in heretofore unacknowledged ways. The author also discusses the consequences of placing different ethnic, communal, and linguistic groups onto the colonial map and the growing importance of majority and minority populations in representative democratic politics.

Mapping Partition: Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan is required reading for students and researchers studying geography, colonial and imperial history, South Asian studies, and interdisciplinary border studies.

Hannah Fitzpatrick is Lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on territorial partitions, borders, boundaries, and the history of cartography.

Inhalt

List of Figures viii

Acknowledgements ix

1. Remapping Partition 1

2. Surveying and Boundary-Making in Colonial India 34

3. Territorialising India and Pakistan 77

4. Geographies of the Punjab Boundary Commission 114

5. Oskar Spate, the Muslim League and Geographical Expertise 139

6. Partition to Partitions: New Avenues for Historical Geography 181

Index 191

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2024
• Reihe/Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Asian & Australasian History • Asian Politics • geographical factors in borders • Geographie • Geography • Geschichte • Geschichte / Asien u. Australasien • History • indian border • indian boundary • Indian Partition • India-Pakistan • India-Pakistan partition • Indien /Geschichte • oskar spate • pakistan border • pakistan boundary • Pakistan /Geschichte • Pakistan partition • Political Geography • Political Science • Politik • Politik / Asien • Politikwissenschaft • Politische Geographie • punjab boundary commission • south asian borders
• ISBN-10: 1-119-67384-4 / 1119673844
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-67384-2 / 9781119673842