Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget
5 years, 5 months ago

Partition: An event to celebrate, mourn, or forget

Al Jazeera  

More than 70 years ago today, the Indian subcontinent was divided by its British colonial rulers into two nation-states – India and Pakistan. In the schools that I work in Pakistan, students frequently tell me that they celebrate Pakistan’s independence from not the British Empire but “Hindu India” every August. Mourning a breakup in India As Pakistan celebrates the “making of the motherland”, every August India remembers the Partition as the “breakup of the motherland”. For instance, textbooks in Pakistan state that the 1971 war – which resulted in the birth of Bangladesh – was an Indian conspiracy to break up Pakistan because it could never truly stomach the Partition. In India, genuine Kashmiri grievances are ignored and the movement for independence in Kashmir is only seen through the lens of “Pakistan- By contrast, the contested territory is perceived as the “unfinished agenda of the Partition” in Pakistan, another “triumph” in the waiting.

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Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha
1 year, 5 months ago

Partition only due to 2 persons: Manik Saha

Hindustan Times  

AGARTALA: India was partitioned in 1947 due to the wishes of only “two persons” though many Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and people from all other religions were against it, Tripura chief minister Manik Saha said at a programme to mark Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in Agartala on Monday. Tripura chief minister Manik Saha “If we think that only Hindus didn’t want …

Road to Partition : Throughline
2 years, 1 month ago

Road to Partition : Throughline

NPR  

Road to Partition : Throughline What happens when a nation splits apart? It happened 75 years ago with Partition, when India and Pakistan became independent nations, divided by a somewhat arbitrary line that separated neighbors, families, and communities. In today's episode, NPR politics reporter Asma Khalid takes us back in time to learn how the road to Partition was paved, …

Partitioned Freedom: Ram Madhav's new book triggers shift in popular perception of RSS’ view on Mahatma Gandhi
2 years, 1 month ago

Partitioned Freedom: Ram Madhav's new book triggers shift in popular perception of RSS’ view on Mahatma Gandhi

Firstpost  

The book marks an important intervention in the study of India’s colonial struggle and eventual partition, and definitely forms a significant contribution to RSS’s historiography on partition Tomes of literature and scholarly work on India’s bloodied partition have been produced over decades, so much so, as to reduce the effort to write on the subject to a banal exercise. In …

Interview, Aanchal Malhotra, Author, Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided? - “You learn to take care of the sadness of others”
2 years, 2 months ago

Interview, Aanchal Malhotra, Author, Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided? - “You learn to take care of the sadness of others”

Hindustan Times  

How do you feel about the award? The international edition published by C Hurst & Co The committee has taken note of the “moral and ethical underpinnings” of your work with Partition survivors. The book, which was published by C Hurst & Co globally, was published under a different title by HarperCollins India – Remnants of a Separation: A History …

India's Partition Story: 75 Years On, Where Do The Neighbouring Nations Stand?
2 years, 3 months ago

India's Partition Story: 75 Years On, Where Do The Neighbouring Nations Stand?

The Quint  

Do citizens of these “new” countries like and trust each other? Answers to these questions become even more important and relevant as the world and South Asia struggle to cope with a series of unprecedented crisis including Covid pandemic in early 2020. In an ambitious exercise, CVoter Foundation collaborated with the Centre for Policy Research to conduct a massive survey …

Partition and the heavy bangle of history
2 years, 4 months ago

Partition and the heavy bangle of history

The Hindu  

The Indian freedom movement is the success story of nationalism in South Asia, and Partition and its memory are part of the unresolved narratives that the movement carried within itself. Marvel’, from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Canadian-Pakistani actress Iman Vellani attempts to introduce the collective tragedy of Partition from a point of triumph and inclusivity. The realist angle Retelling …

India Independence Day: What the partition means to young south Asians like me, 75 years on
2 years, 5 months ago

India Independence Day: What the partition means to young south Asians like me, 75 years on

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. From the 1600s, Britain’s East India …

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?
2 years, 5 months ago

Infographic: How were India-Pakistan partition borders drawn?

Al Jazeera  

This animated map shows how the borders of the Indian subcontinent have evolved since the 1947 partition. Seventy-five years ago, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a British lawyer, was commissioned to draw the borders that would divide British-ruled India into two new, independent nations: Hindu-majority India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. The boundary between the two nations became known as the Radcliffe Line …

Formation of States to Adopting Constitution: What Happened After India Got Independence, Learn in #ClassesWithNews18
2 years, 5 months ago

Formation of States to Adopting Constitution: What Happened After India Got Independence, Learn in #ClassesWithNews18

News 18  

​ For the last two years, the world has been restricted to homes. After Partition: Problem of unity and development The partition of India in 1947 divided British India into three independent dominions: India and Pakistan. Thus, the Kannada, Malayalam, Telegu, Marathi speakers, who had all looked forward to having their own state began protests., In October 1952, a veteran …

The Bengal Conundrum: Partition of Bengal and the Growth in Muslim Separatism
2 years, 7 months ago

The Bengal Conundrum: Partition of Bengal and the Growth in Muslim Separatism

News 18  

It has been a year since unprecedented violence took place in West Bengal after the Assembly election results were announced. The British had decided to partition Bengal primarily for two reasons — first, to curb the growing nationalism and second to promote Muslim separatism. The partition encouraged the rise of communalism in the Muslim community and the utilization of mob …

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition
2 years, 11 months ago

Book Review: S.S. Sharma's 'The Great Tragedy of India’s Partition’ helps to understand the circumstances of India’s Partition

The Hindu  

P artition, or rather the vivisection of India, as Mahatma Gandhi termed it, is a theme of enduring interest, both to the rapidly diminishing generation that suffered and survived it and to the succeeding generations in the subcontinent. As for the Lahore Resolution, adopted in March 1940 by the Muslim League without mentioning the word “Pakistan”, the author correctly points …

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive
3 years, 1 month ago

How PM Narendra Modi & RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Keep 'Akhand Bharat' Alive

The Quint  

Bhagwat contended that Indian leaders at the time of Partition did not have the vision, courage or conviction to prevent it. The RSS has long argued that partition could have been averted because MA Jinnah died within a few months and it was hastiness on part of Nehru to acquire power that led to a truncated territory being India. In …

‘Partition is resonating loudly in our present’
3 years, 3 months ago

‘Partition is resonating loudly in our present’

Live Mint  

In Manreet Sodhi Someshwar’s latest novel, Lahore, the first part of a projected trilogy chronicling the human costs of the partition of the subcontinent, there is an electric charge from the very first page. Two friends, Beli Ram and Mehmood, who have grown up together in “Laur”, are caught in the crossfire between a rally by the Muslim League demanding …

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition
3 years, 5 months ago

Historical photo shows Nehru and others voting in favour of partition

Op India  

On the day PM Modi declared August 14 to be observed as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ to acknowledge the pain undergone by Indians due to the partition of India in 1947, an unseen picture of Congress delegates voting in favour of partition has gone viral on the internet. The picture of Congress members, which also included India’s first Prime Minister …

What does fiction tell us about Partition?
3 years, 5 months ago

What does fiction tell us about Partition?

The Hindu  

Parsing Partition is a national pastime. Daisy Rockwell tries to explain why in the Afterword to her translation of Khadija Mastur’s A Promised Land : “Like the Holocaust, or the American Civil War, or the French Revolution or any other epochal conflict that has shredded the fabric of society and caused many deaths, it is both a deep psychic preoccupation …

Interview: Pallavi Raghavan, Author, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship
4 years ago

Interview: Pallavi Raghavan, Author, Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship

Hindustan Times  

Often, even as India and Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations and hold talks about the Indus Water Treaty, ceasefire violations and retaliatory shelling continue along the Line of Control. We need to remember that the story of “othering” is just one of many different kinds of narratives that can be shaped around the subcontinent’s history. It’s a slower process …

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united
4 years, 10 months ago

By agreeing to Partition, Congress kept India united

The Hindu  

It has become a fashion these days to blame the Congress for Partition. Cabinet Mission Plan Moreover, documentary evidence, especially the resolution of the Muslim League Council in June 1946 that accepted the Cabinet Mission Plan, proves that the Muslim League’s acceptance was premised on the belief that the Plan was a stepping stone towards the ultimate formation of Pakistan, …

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary
5 years ago

Partition was a historic swindle that India, Pakistan and Bangladesh must see through; steps to undo British wrongdoing necessary

Firstpost  

A historical united people’s struggle led by patriotic, modern-minded leaders, like Mustafa Kemal of Turkey or the leaders of Japan after the Meiji Restoration, will be required for bringing about a transformation to lift India from the ranks of underdeveloped to developed countries Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s birth anniversary was on 25 December, and on this occasion, many Pakistanis said that …

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition
5 years ago

Indians have not learned lessons of Partition

Deccan Chronicle  

The current time in India has brought us an accurate reproduction of the days leading up to Partition. 11) Provision should be made in the Constitution giving Muslims an adequate share, along with the other Indians, in all the services of the state and in local self-governing bodies having due regard to the requirements of efficiency. 12) The Constitution should …

Remembering the war of 1971 in East Pakistan
5 years, 1 month ago

Remembering the war of 1971 in East Pakistan

Al Jazeera  

Forty-eight years after the 1971 war, which led to the independence of Bangladesh, each country involved in the conflict has institutionalised a distinct memory of the events of that year. Today, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India have their own closely held war stories, with 1971 taking on unique meanings across the subcontinent. Bangladesh: The liberation war 170813093154943 The struggle for Bengali …

How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed
5 years, 5 months ago

How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed

Al Jazeera  

This animated map shows how the borders of the Indian subcontinent have evolved since partition. In August 1947, the British decided to end their 200-year long rule in the Indian subcontinent and to divide it into two separate nations, Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. In addition to the British-controlled territories, the subcontinent also consisted of many other territories under French, …

India-Pakistan: Face to Face
5 years, 10 months ago

India-Pakistan: Face to Face

Al Jazeera  

India and Pakistan, arch rivals and nuclear neighbours with a history of wars and conflict, are engaged in an arms race. In 1947, the British colonial rulers drew a line of partition, dividing the Indian subcontinent into Muslim-majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India. The tension between India and Pakistan has escalated sharply once again after a suicide bomber blew himself up …

India Independence Day: Four things you should know about Partition and this historically important day
6 years, 5 months ago

India Independence Day: Four things you should know about Partition and this historically important day

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Indian Independence Day is a …

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