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5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath
On the 75th anniversary, scholars share their favorite work that best explains the trauma of a violent division By Madhur Anand - Ajay Verghese - Amitabh Mattoo - Geetha Ganapathy-Doré - Uditi Sen One of 30 special trains leaving New Delhi Station which will take the staff of the Pakistan government to Karachi. Muslim League National Guards stand to attention in honour of the departure. (Keystone Features/Getty Images) This article was originally published on The Conversation. Editor's note:...
5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; Ajay Verghese, Middlebury; Amitabh Mattoo, The University of Melbourne; Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham (THE CONVERSATION) Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims.
5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath
Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Madhur Anand, University of Guelph; Ajay Verghese, Middlebury; Amitabh Mattoo, The University of Melbourne; Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, and Uditi Sen, University of Nottingham (THE CONVERSATION) Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims.
5 books and films that tell the story of the trauma of the Partition of India and its aftermath Original
Editor’s note: At midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, India achieved independence from British colonial rule and Pakistan was created as a separate homeland for Muslims. More than 200 years of British rule had come to an end – a painful process in which some 15 million people were displaced and another million or more killed. The trauma of the Partition is seared in the collective memory of the two countries to this day.
Taking Other Religions Seriously: A Comparative Survey of Hindus in India
References Asad, Talal. 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.Google Scholar Bader, Christopher D., and Finke, Roger. 2014. “Toward Assessing and Improving Survey Questions on Religion: The ARDA's Measurement Wizard.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53 (3): 652–661.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Bhargava, Rajeev. 2010. The Promise of India's Secular Democracy.
Taking Other Religions Seriously: A Comparative Survey of Hindus in India
Asad, Talal. 1993. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Bader, Christopher D., and Finke, Roger. 2014. “Toward Assessing and Improving Survey Questions on Religion: The ARDA's Measurement Wizard.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 53 (3): 652–661. Bhargava, Rajeev. 2010. The Promise of India's Secular Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press. Bhushan, L. I. 1970.
Analysis | In India, thousands are protesting the new citizenship law. Here are 4 things to know.
Citizens across India have turned out in recent weeks to protest a controversial piece of legislation known as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The CAA became law on Dec. 11, after the upper house of India’s Parliament passed the measure and the country’s president gave it his assent.
What do the Indian national elections reveal about secularism in India?
About 67 percent of 900 million eligible voters turned out to vote in India’s recent general election, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, “Indian People’s Party”) won. Yes, most commentators cautiously expected a BJP victory. But the surprise was that the BJP-led coalition claimed 352 seats and roughly 40 percent of the votes. For some analysts, there is concern that this landslide win could signal the end of India as a secular state.
India’s History of Hate Needs Retelling
India Ajay Verghese and Roberto Stefan Foa Apr 12, 2019 13:42:54 IST Firstpost print Edition In contemporary India there are few problems as intractable as that of Hindu-Muslim conflict. From 1950 to 1995, over 7,000 Indians, overwhelmingly Muslim, died in communal rioting. The 1980s in particular witnessed an upsurge in Hindu nationalist politics that led to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya and the Gujarat riots of 2002.
India's history of hate needs retelling; secular paradigm has its own problems and requires revision
India Ajay Verghese and Roberto Stefan Foa Apr 14, 2019 12:43:37 IST Editor's Note: This article first appeared in Issue 12 of Firstpost print. In contemporary India there are few problems as intractable as that of Hindu-Muslim conflict. From 1950 to 1995, over 7,000 Indians, overwhelmingly Muslim, died in communal rioting. The 1980s in particular witnessed an upsurge in Hindu nationalist politics that led to the 1992 destruction of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and the Gujarat riots of 2002.
Violence, Insecurity, and Religiosity: A Multilevel Analysis of 71 Countries
A large social science literature demonstrates a link between personal insecurity and religiosity. When individuals are healthy, literate, and gainfully employed, they tend to be less religious. One of the most fundamental threats to an individual is the risk of violence, but this important marker of insecurity has been unexplored in recent studies of the determinants of religiosity.
Did Hindu-Muslim conflicts in India really start with the British rule?
In 1679, the Mughal ruler Aurangzeb reinstituted the hated jizyah (tax on non-Muslims) in his empire.
The Historiography of Medieval India Needs a Middle Way - The Wire
Late last year, Karnataka’s celebration of Tipu Jayanti (the birthday of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore from 1783 to 1799) was widely protested by Sangh Parivar activists. In the course of an altercation, one VHP activist was killed.
The Historiography of Medieval India Needs a Middle Way
Late last year, Karnataka’s celebration of Tipu Jayanti (the birthday of Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore from 1783 to 1799) was widely protested by Sangh Parivar activists. In the course of an altercation, one VHP activist was killed.
Secularism Is Not Weakened By Acknowleding Tipu and Aurangzeb Also Did Bad Things
Recently, the renaming of Delhi’s Aurangzeb Road and Karnataka’s celebration of Tipu Jayanti have ignited furious debates within India and thrown the country’s past once again into the spotlight. Was Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor, a sectarian fanatic who “destroyed the Idea of India”? Or was he instead an enlightened despot who persecuted Hindus only “as punishment for political opposition”? And was Tipu Sultan, the ‘Tiger of Mysore,’ an Islamic tyrant, a valiant anti-colonialist, or both?
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