Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 7) - Softcover

Pandey, Gyanendra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521002508 ISBN 13: 9780521002509

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Gyan Pandey's latest book is a compelling examination of the violence that marked the partition of India in 1947, and how the preceding events have been documented. In the process, the author provides a critique of history-writing and nationalist myth-making. He also investigates how local forms of community are established by the way in which violent events are remembered and written about. The book will be of interest to historians of South Asia, to sociologists and to anyone concerned with the Indian subaltern story.

About this title

About the Author:

Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology and History at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and is the author of many publications including Hindus and Others: The Question of identity in India Today (1993) and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990).

Review:

'[Pandey] has produced an important and influential study which will for many years influence the agenda of the 'history from beneath' approach to the history of partition.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521002508
• ISBN 13: 9780521002509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236