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2005, Partitions. Reshaping states and minds
The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and erstwhile Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between the two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus have together fuelled new thinking on the strategy and acts of partitioning countries, states, nations and continuities. They have also given rise to a huge body of literature. However, studies of partitions have usually focused on individual cases. This innovative volume uses comparative analysis to fill the gap in partition studies and examines cross- cutting issues.
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collection of essays, co-edited with Laura Robson Partition—the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states—is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities—the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel—emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization. Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel—the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces. In so doing, the volume seeks to move beyond the nationalist frameworks that served in the first instance to promote partition as a natural phenomenon. ------ REVIEWS: "It is fitting that this commendable revisionist history should appear a century after the end of World War I, when partition first emerged as a highly mobile, transnational paradigm. Tracing the movement of partition theories and practices across multiple colonial spaces, this volume resists both functional explanations and the balance-sheet approach in favor of a deeply historicized account of partition's multiple lives and afterlives across the twentieth century and beyond." —Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois "A historical sweep of the imperial origins, transnational dynamics, and local calamities of the era of territorial partitions; and a cautionary tale." —Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego "Dubnov and Robson offer a compelling and rich collection of essays that demonstrate the historical and theoretical complexities of the partitions projects. Reading this noteworthy volume will benefit historians, political scientists, and those interested in the historical relevance of partitions to the creation of the contemporary international order."––Or Rosenboim, Global Intellectual History "This edited volume provides a timely and much-needed contribution by situating partition within a rich transnational historical context to delineate its genealogy as much as its limitations....its analysis and transnational perspective are precious." —Leila Farsakh, Journal of Palestine Studies "[One] of the most well-integrated and well-written edited volumes of the British Empire's partitioning of Palestine, Ireland, and India ever produced....[A] rich exploration of multiple perceptions of partition, how partition was manipulated transnationally to serve select interests, and the lessons these cases have for understanding majorities, minorities, territorial control, and security in many of today's conflicts." —Carter Johnson, E-International Relations "The authors of Partitions provide a critical examination of humankind’s new favorite fiction: the ethnostate. With its expansive subject matter, lucid argumentation and increasing relevancy, Partitions is an admirable work of collaborative scholarship." — Max Saltman, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Partition: An International History
'Partition: An International History', The International History Review2019 •
In trying to assemble the structure through which bilateral relations between India and Pakistan could be conducted, policy makers drew heavily from European models of inter-state peace-making evolved in the inter-war decades. The aftermath of the break-up of large multinational empires along ethnic-majoritarian lines posed administrative questions that were, in many ways, also similar to the aftermath of the partition of the subcontinent along religious lines. In this article, I attempt to relate these developments with the signing of the Nehru–Liaquat Pact of 1950, between the governments of India and Pakistan. According to this Pact, both governments would now be accountable to one another for the protection of their minorities in the Bengal province. I argue that this approach to dealing with the question of minority populations after a partition, had been initially developed by the League of Nations, and that emulating these models were part of an attempt by India and Pakistan to borrow from, but also further refine models of European statehood for their own purposes after their partition. This article attempts to evaluate the extent to which these expectations were met in the making of a ‘minorities’ regime’ in South Asia.
2016 •
The twentieth century partitions, it has been argued, have been essentially the by‑products of three interlinked global developments: (a) decolonisation; (b) democratisation and the (c) Cold War dynamics. The partition of the Indian subcontinent, in particular, bore the imprint of the maelstrom produced by the intertwining of these three forces. The process of partition in South Asia did not only involve simple division and reorganisation of territories but was accompanied by devolution and indigenisation of political institutions and governance, placing partition at the heart of the process of nation‑state formation. In this sense, the longue duree process of the partitioning of the subcontinent has continued to cast its long shadow over the nation‑building process leading to internal discrepancies and the development of regional dynamics, often competitive and conflictual in nature.
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This draft explores the myth of partition and its associated 'partition industry' that aims to usurp alternative identities and makes peace all the more difficult to actualize.
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