Remembering Partition Violence, Nationalism and History in India [Paperback]

A compelling and harrowing examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India.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.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.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.Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. By way of introduction; 2. The three partitions of 1947; 3. Historians' history; 4. The evidence of the historian; 5. Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946; 6. Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 19478; 7. Disciplining difference; 8. Constructing col#Ú