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Mapping Partition: Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan
Mapping Partition delivers the first in-depth geographical account of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.
Explores the impact of colonial geography and geographers on the boundary, both during the partition process and in the period preceding it Draws on extensive archival research and is an insightful treatment of the colonial partition of India and Pakistan Argues that colonial geography underpinned the partition process in heretofore unacknowledged ways Discusses the consequences of placing different ethnic, communal, and linguistic groups onto the colonial map and the growing importance of majority and minority populations in representative democratic politics
Explores the impact of colonial geography and geographers on the boundary, both during the partition process and in the period preceding it Draws on extensive archival research and is an insightful treatment of the colonial partition of India and Pakistan Argues that colonial geography underpinned the partition process in heretofore unacknowledged ways Discusses the consequences of placing different ethnic, communal, and linguistic groups onto the colonial map and the growing importance of majority and minority populations in representative democratic politics
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Published October 16, 2023
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