India Partitioned: The Other Face Of Freedom
MUSHIRUL HASAN
This two-volume edition draws upon short stories, poems, and satirical pieces to represent the voices of anguish and the sense of betrayal at the freedom gained.
Hardback | 140 x 216mm (5.5 x 8.5") | 595 pp
ISBN 8174360115
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Volume I. The partition of India cast its lengthy shadows on two generations of the subcontinent. Ordinary people across borders were sucked into its vortex as unconscious and innocent actors, as maddened mobs. The first of two volumes, this books draws upon short stories, poems, and satirical pieces, to represent the voices of anguish and the sense of betrayal at the freedom gained.
Volume II. This volume continues the narrative about the partition and the human tragedy that marked the political division on 15 August 1947. The anguish, pain and failed hopes of those who bore its brunt across borders is captured in diaries, memoirs, eyewitness accounts and interviews. Here, people speak in their own voices—raw, compelling and despairing. Some of them strike an ominously contemporary note.
About the author
Professor Mushirul Hasan is an eminent historian who teaches modern Indian history at the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has been visiting professor at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA; Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin; and Professorial Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi. He has authored Nationalism and Communal Politics in India, 1885–1930; Legacy of a Divided Nation: India’s Muslims Since Independence; From Pluralism to Separtism: Qasbas in Colonial Awadh (2004); A Moral Reckoning: Muslim Intellectuals in Nineteenth-Century Delhi; A Nationalist Conscience: M.A. Ansari, the Congress and the Raj (1987) and Mohamed Ali: Ideology and Politics (1981); and edited India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom; Knowledge, Power and Politics: Educational Institutions in India, among others. He is currently writing Modern India as part of a four-volume series entitled India 2000, shortly to be published by Roli Books.
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