ABSTRACT

The book is a comprehensive study of border-related issues arising from the 1947 Partition of India. It looks at various cases of border disputes and affrays such as disputes related to the incorporation of princely states like Kashmir and Jaunpur, the agitation for the creation of new political entities, post-partition reconstruction of Punjab and old pre-partition Punjabi leaders losing their relevance, the Kamtapuri movement, Khasi and Mizo and Chin dissatisfactions, as well as the secession of East Pakistan in 1971.

An important contribution to the study of borders, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of modern Indian history, colonial India, Partition studies, borderland studies, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, film studies, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.

chapter |31 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|14 pages

Lyrics of Loss and Laments

Anecdotal History of Assam Partition and Its Afterlife

chapter 2|21 pages

‘Cartography of Self-assertion'

Superimposed Boundary and Local Response in the India–Myanmar Borderland

chapter 3|20 pages

Offshoots of Partition

The Rise of Adverse Possessions in India

chapter 4|20 pages

Partition of Bengal and Struggle for Existence of the Host Society

The Case of the Rajbanshis of North Bengal 1

chapter 5|16 pages

The Invasion of Jammu and Kashmir

An Aberration in the Legacy of Harmony and Coexistence 1

chapter 6|19 pages

Matdaan

An ‘Anecdotal History' of the Junagarh Referendum in Times of Subcontinental Partitions

chapter 7|11 pages

Muslims against Pakistan

A Case Study of Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew

chapter 8|14 pages

Economic Consequences of the Partition (1947)

The Greater Punjab Region

chapter 9|32 pages

Redoing the Partition

The Bangladesh Liberation War and the People of Two Bengals