Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India Some powerful Punjabi Hindus also preferred partition and contributed to its adoption.In tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from the early years of the twentieth century, Nair ove
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| Title | : | Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.80 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674057791 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2011-04-01 |
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Editorial : It is an excellent work of meticulous research. Its argument is sharp and well executed. In many ways, what Joya Chatterji accomplished in her book, Bengal Divided, Nair does for Punjab. Nair's is a fine illustration of Rancière's dissensus: it derails the received wisdom on Partition. -- Irfan Ahmad, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
Changing Homelands offers a startling new perspective on what was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In this highly readable account of the partition in the Punjab, Neeti Nair rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, the idea of partition was a very late, stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.In tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the entrenched view that Muslims were responsible for the partition of India. Some powerful Punjabi Hindus also preferred partition and contributed to its adoption. Almost no one, however, foresaw the deaths and devastation that would follow in its wake.Though much has been written on the politics of the Muslim and Sikh communities in the Punjab, Nair is the first historian to focus on the Hindu minority, both be
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