Divided Countries, Separated Cities

Description

Book Specification

Item Code:	IDG026
Author:	Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes Rada Ivekovic
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, New Delhi
Language:	English
Edition:	2001
ISBN:	0195665406
Pages:	192
Cover:	Hardcover
Other Details	8.7″ X 5.9″
Weight	440 gm

Book Description

About the Author:

For over a century, partition has been considered the only solution when transaction, and politics, have failed. But can partition really provide a long-term solution to a conflict or even prevent further conflict? How peaceful is life in cities that have been separated?

This interesting collection of writings presents sensitive, complex, and wide-ranging reflections on the modern phenomenon of partition. The essays consider the mechanisms of nation-building in partition, both post-colonial and in the context of post-1989 transitions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, and analyses whether the partition of the Indian subcontinent should be considered a paradigm case.

The particular histories of nationalism and partition are different in the countries involved, but the commonalities in the painful universality of the experience, and in the narrative structures, state and nation-building strategies, patriarchal patterns of control, and mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion are striking. The texts engage in critical thinking about processes such as fragmentation and exclusion, placing them in perspective in the historical event of partition.

This thought-provoking volume, sharply analytical yet lucidly written, will attract analytical yet lucidly written, will attract scholars and students of history, sociology, politics, urban studies, and cultural studies, as also the interested lay reader.

About the Book:

MUSHIRUL HASAN (EDITOR)

The Partition Omnibus

GYANENDRA PANDEY

The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India

(Oxford India Paperbacks)

MUSHIRUL HASAN (EDITOR)

India’s Partition

Process, Strategy and Mobilization

(Oxford India Paperbacks)

MUSHIRUL HASAN (EDITOR)

Inventing Boundaries

CONTENTS

Preface		vii
PROOGUE		1
Settling Partition Hostilities: Lessons Learnt, the Options Ahead Radha Kumar		3
DIVIDED COUNTRIES, SEPARATED CITIES		19
The Last Hurrah that Continues Ranabir Samaddar		21
History as Drama Friedrich Dieckmann		36
The Partition of India Claude Markovits		50
Divorce by Mutual Consent or War of Secession?		63
(Czechoslovakia-Yugoslavia) Jacques Rupnic
On the Hague Conference, 1991 Goran Fejic		73
Refugee Memory in India and Pakistan Syed Sikander Mehdi		85
Families, Displacement Meghna Guhathakurta		96
The Mostar Story, or the Twenty-first-century Berlin Ozren Kebo		106
Lies of the Island: Cyprus Ahmet Altan		112
The Dynamics of Division Ritu Menon		115
Women’s Trauma and Triumph Subhoranjan Dasgupta		130
Asymmetrical Nationhood in India and Pakistan Mushirul Hasan		140
From the Nation to Partition;
Through Partition to the Nation: Readings Rada Ivekovic		150
PORTRAIT		175
Jerusalem’s Stumbling Blocks Antoine Maurice		177
List of Contributors		184
Index		186