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The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition
Authors:
Victor Kattan
,
Amit Ranjan (editors)
ISBN:
9789395474061
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2025
Pages:
309
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
640 grams
Price:
INR
2495
2246.00
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About the Book
The Breakup of India and Palestine
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. It analyses why, even 75 years after partition, the two regions have not been able to address some of the pertinent historical, political and social debates of the colonial years.
About the Authors
Victor Kattan
Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of Nottingham.
Amit Ranjan
Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
Editorial Reviews
“This fascinating essay collection offers systematic analysis of partition in India and Palestine as processes connected through supranational politics, international law, and transnational networks. Thought provoking, often harrowing and always original, the essays collected here make essential reading for anyone interested in where partitions fit within global decolonisation.”
—Martin Thomas, University of Exeter
“An expert team of authors assembled by Victor Kattan and Amit Rajan have produced an original book on the momentous years of 1947 and 1948 in the Indian subcontinent and Palestine. By showing how partition failed to resolve the nationality 'problems' it was designed to solve, the multi-scalar analyses in
The Breakup of India and Palestine
demonstrate how the seeds were sown for the illiberal majoritarian democracies there today. A brilliant achievement.”
—A. Dirk Moses, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Colin Powell School for Civic and International Leadership at the City College of New York, CUNY
“This book is expertly planned, presented and written. Each chapter links into the next, enabling a seamless comparative account of colonial and postcolonial governance agendas through the prism of partition politics. The detailed investigation into the latter gives a balanced account and adds an analytical rigour to the academic literature on the topic, which is skewed towards colonial politics and limits the agency of the postcolonial societies.”
—
International Affairs
100: 2, 2024
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