The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's Border Landscape, 1947–52

1999/01/01 by Joya Chatterji · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #South Asian Studies and Conflicts #South Asian Cinema and Culture #Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies

paper · doi:10.1017/s0026749x99003066

Abstract

The partition of India is customarily described in surgical metaphors, as an operation, an amputation, a vivisection or a dismemberment. By extension, the new borders created in 1947 are often thought of as incision scars.

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