{"product_id":"the-breakup-of-india-and-palestine-the-causes-and-legacies-of-partition-9781526170309","title":"The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This fascinating essay collection offers systematic analysis of partition in India and Palestine as processes connected through supranational politics, international law, and transnational networks. Thought provoking, often harrowing and always original, the essays collected here make essential reading for anyone interested in where partitions fit within global decolonisation.' Martin Thomas, University of Exeter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An expert team of authors assembled by Victor Kattan and Amit Rajan have produced an original book on the momentous years of 1947 and 1948 in the Indian subcontinent and Palestine. By showing how partition failed to resolve the nationality ‘problems’ it was designed to solve, the multi-scalar analyses in \u003ci\u003eThe breakup of India and Palestine \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrate how the seeds were sown for the illiberal majoritarian democracies there today. A brilliant achievement.' A. Dirk Moses, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the Colin Powell School for Civic and International Leadership at the City College of New York, CUNY\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Lucy Chester\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Connecting the partitions of India and Palestine: institutions, policies, laws and people – Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The partition of British India\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Mountbatten Viceroyalty reconsidered: personality, prestige and strategic vision in the partition of India – Ian Talbot\u003cbr\u003e2 The paradigmatic partition? The Pakistan demand revisited – Ayesha Jalal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The partition of Palestine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Partition and the question of international governance: the 1947 United Nations Special Committee on Palestine – Laura Robson\u003cbr\u003e4 Fighting for Palestine as a holy duty? The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the partition of Palestine in 1947 – Mohamed-Ali Adraoui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The partitions of India and Palestine compared\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 The communal question and partition in British India and mandate Palestine – Amrita Shodhan\u003cbr\u003e6 India’s dilemmas of pragmatism v. principles: Nehru’s preference for a partitioned India but a federal Palestine – P. R. Kumaraswamy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The consequences of partition for South Asia, the Middle East and beyond\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia – Victor Kattan\u003cbr\u003e8 ‘Unfinished’ partition: territorial disputes, unequal citizens and the rise of majoritarian nationalism in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh – Amit Ranjan\u003cbr\u003e9 Civil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 war in Palestine from a global perspective – Arie M. Dubnov\u003cbr\u003e10 Partitioned identities? Regional, caste and national identity in Pakistan – Iqbal Singh Sevea\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Partition as imperial inheritance – Penny Sinanoglou\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041037123927,"sku":"9781526170309","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526170309.jpg?v=1750948698","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-breakup-of-india-and-palestine-the-causes-and-legacies-of-partition-9781526170309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}