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Singing Gandhi's India: Music and Sonic Nationalism

Lakshmi Subramanian
Roli Books
2020

End of the Postcolonial State

Author(s): 
Faisal Devji
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic & Political Weekly
www.epw.in/journal/2021/44/50-years-liberation-bangladesh/end-postcolonial-state.html

Much of the scholarship on Bangladesh’s founding places it within a narrative of repetition. It either repeats the partitions of 1905 or 1947 or the creation of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states. This paper argues instead for the novelty of Bangladesh’s creation against the postcolonial state, suggesting that it opened up a new history at the global level in which decolonisation was replaced by civil war as the founding narrative for new states.

India, Pakistan, and a History of Water Sharing: Revisiting the Indus Water Treaty

Author(s): 
EPW Engage
Publisher/Sponsor: 
EPW Engage
www.epw.in/engage/article/india-pakistan-indus-water-treaty

Legal and political considerations make flouting the Indus Water Treaty easier said than done.

Visual culture and violence: inventing intimacy and citizenship in recent South Asian cinema

Author(s): 
Kavita Daiya
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19472498.2011.605301

The 1947 Partition of India has recently re-emerged as a thematic concern of many South Asian films about nationalism in popular and parallel cinema. These films invoke the 1947 Partition in both productive and troubling ways: they connect it to the contemplation of the role of religion in the contemporary nation-state, and of the impact of religious ethnicity, terrorism and gender on the experience of citizenship in both India and Pakistan.

Ramchand Pakistani, Khamosh Pani and the traumatic evocation of Partition

Author(s): 
Humaira Saeed
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330903361166

This article will address the themes of partition, gender and trauma within two independent films from Pakistan, Sabiha Sumar's Khamosh Pani (2003) and Mehreen Jabbar's Ramchand Pakistani (2008). The article will consider how the events of 1947 – partition of India and creation of Pakistan – recur within the films as disruptive trauma. The article will consider what an engagement with the characteristics of trauma such as involuntary recall and disruption can bring to my readings of the films.

Of “other” histories and identities: partition novels from the Indian subcontinent

Author(s): 
Vishnupriya Sengupta
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330903361174

Ever since the Partition, novelists on either side of the India–Pakistan border have used fictional space imaginatively to formulate discourses on a humanistically-centred, multiplistically-defined Other identity, which writes itself into existence through the prism of the novelists’ contextual present. In this article, I will focus on three partition narratives: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children (1980), Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice candy man (1988) and Amitav Ghosh's The shadow lines (1988).

Home and the nation: Women, citizenship and transnational migration in postcolonial literature

Kavita Daiya
Taylor and Francis
2008

Gender and Nationalism A Study of Partition Fiction and Cinema

Author(s): 
Gauri Mishra
Publisher/Sponsor: 
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
hdl.handle.net/10603/185508

"Partition history and the fiction related to it have been the focus of many studies in the past two decades. The reasons are manifold: the need to go back to one's roots, the growing interest of India and Pakistan in each other's cultures, finding parallels, drawing upon common issues and a constant endeavor to reconcile with the past which includes understanding 'history' and its relation with Nation.

Some Called it Independence; Others Partition

Author(s): 
Neera Chandoke
Publisher/Sponsor: 
The Wire
https://thewire.in/politics/some-called-it-independence-others-partition

Of course nationalism is a good – yet it has also created zones of dangers for ethnic minorities, for people who it is held do not belong, and for the vulnerable.

Bengali Communities in Colonial Assam

Sanghamitra Misra
Asian History
2019

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