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Re-Presenting the Past in the Hindi Novel: The Darkness in Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s Tamas
Published 2021-12-01“…While the modern literary novel in Hindi has traditionally grappled with contemporary issues impacting society in north India, Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s famous novel Tamas (“Darkness”) may be considered a unique endavour to revisit the horrific events that marked the transfer of power and partition of British India in 1947. This article represents a preliminary attempt to consider the emergence of a work of literary fiction in Hindi approximately 25 years after the events on which it is based.…”
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Lessons learned from India’s Green Revolution
Published 2020-07-01“…Partition of British India in 1947 triggered a huge refugee crisis in India. …”
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Iranian Islamic Revolution and the Transformation of Islamist Discourse in Southern India: 1979–1992
Published 2023-01-01“…By focusing on the publications of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) in the Malayalam language, this article argues that the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution (IIR) marked a rupture from the disenchantments of the 1947 partition of British India and Cold War-centered politics for the Islamists of Kerala. …”
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Bollywood of India: Geopolitical Texts of Belonging and Difference and Narratives of Mistrust and Suspicion
Published 2016-10-01“…These films construct an image of identity, belonging and difference, emphasizing that Hindus and Muslims are Indians however some legacies and suffering brought on during the partition of British India are still alive in memories when discrimination and exclusion are practiced in their ancestral homelands.…”
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Remembering Displacement in The Making of Everyday Life in Kolkata: A Sociological Study
Published 2022-07-01“…Through sociological approaches to memory, my work argues that the Partition (of British India and of provinces of Bengal) and migration of people thereafter has shaped the everyday life of displaced individuals who moved to the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and contributed to their sense of home and belonging. …”
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Endangered Urban Commons: Lahore’s Violent Heritage Management and Prospects for Reconciliation
Published 2023-01-01“…Our focus on ignored dimensions and objects of heritage sheds light on the systematic denial of a shared history with Hindus and Sikhs before and during the 1947 partition of British India. This partial ignorance and the intentional neglect, for instance, of housing premises inhabited once by Hindus and other non-Muslim minorities, prevent any constructive confrontation with the past. …”
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The Kartarpur Pilgrimage Corridor: Negotiating the �Line of Mutual Hatred�
Published 2021-07-01“…After the partition of British India in 1947, many pilgrimage sites important for the Sikhs � followers of a medieval poet-mystic and philosopher Guru Nanak (1469-1539) � turned out to be at different sides of the India-Pakistani border. …”
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Honour killing as engendered violence against women in Amit Majmudar’s Partitions (2011)
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births of India and Pakistan, but also one of modern history’s largest human mass migrations, in which an estimated million died and thousands of women were subjected to horrifying acts of engendered violence. …”
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Honour killing as engendered violence against women in Amit Majmudar's Partitions (2011)
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births of India and Pakistan, but also one of modern history’s largest human mass migrations, in which an estimated million died and thousands of women were subjected to horrifying acts of engendered violence. …”
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Honour killing as engendered violence against women in Amit Majmudar’s Partitions (2011)
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India, otherwise simply known as Partition, marked not only the births of India and Pakistan, but also one of modern history’s largest human mass migrations, in which an estimated million died and thousands of women were subjected to horrifying acts of engendered violence. …”
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Pakistan and its militants : who is mainstreaming whom?
Published 2018“…The roots of Pakistan’s extremism problem date to the immediate wake of the 1947 partition of British India when using militants as proxies was a way to compensate for Pakistan’s economic and military weakness. …”
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Engendered violence against women during partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India and Amit Majmudar's partitions
Published 2016“…The 1947 Partition of British India marked the birth of two new nations and yet, at the same time, it was one of the largest human mass migrations in modern history (Butalia, 2000). …”
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