The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition
Author:
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
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.
Michal Pagis
Michal Pagis is assistant professor of sociology at Bar-Ilan University.