2015/02/01 by David Gilmartin · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · Mathematics · #South Asian Studies and Diaspora #South Asian Studies and Conflicts #South Asian Cinema and Culture #Modernity #Partition (number theory) #Civilization #History #Politics #Historiography #Political economy #Political science #Sociology #Law #Mathematics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0021911814001685
openalex publication_date 2015/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
More than sixty-five years after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, controversy about partition, its causes and its effects, continues. Yet the emphases in these debates have changed over the years, and it is perhaps time, in the wake of India's recent elections, to take stock once again of how these debates have developed in the last several decades and where they are heading. What gives these controversies particular significance is that they are not just about that singular event, but about the whole trajectory of India's modern history, as interpreted through partition's lens—engaging academic historians, even as they continue to be deeply enmeshed in ongoing political conflict in South Asia, and, indeed, in the world more broadly.