TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nair,Neeti
TI  - Changing homelands: Hindu politics and the partition of India 
SN  - 9780674061156
AV  - DS485.P87 N344 2011eb
U1  - 954.04/2 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Partition of India (1947)
KW  - fast
KW  - Hindus
KW  - India
KW  - Punjab
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - History
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Religious minorities
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Sikhs
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Asia
KW  - India & South Asia
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Nationalism & Patriotism
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Krieg
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Teilung
KW  - Hindu
KW  - Minderheit
KW  - Vorgeschichte
KW  - Religion och politik
KW  - Indien
KW  - sao
KW  - Etniska relationer
KW  - Punjab (India)
KW  - Partition, 1947
KW  - Influence
KW  - Pakistan
KW  - Punjab (Indien)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Loyalty and anti-colonial nationalism -- Negotiating a minority status -- Religion and non-violence in Punjabi politics -- Toward an all-India settlement -- Partition violence and the question of responsibility -- Memory and the search for meaning in post-partition Delhi -- Glossary
N2  - 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 before and long after the divide of 1947. She engages with politics in post-Partition India by drawing from oral histories that reveal the complex relationship between memory and history--a relationship that continues to inform politics between India and Pakistan; Neeti Nair's account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, partition--though advocated by some powerful Hindus--was a stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region
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