Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan - Couverture rigide

Ansari, Sarah; Gould, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1107196051 ISBN 13 : 9781107196056

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The 1947 Partition had a major impact on issues of citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan in the decades that followed. Boundaries of Belonging shows how citizenship evolves at a time of political transition and what this meant for ordinary people, by directing attention away from South Asia's Partition 'hotspots' - Bengal and Punjab - to Partition's 'hinterlands' of Uttar Pradesh and Sindh. The analysis, based on rich archival research and fieldwork, brings out commonalities, differences, and the mutual co-construction of the 'citizen' in both places. It also reveals the way in which developments across the border, such as communal violence, could directly impact on minority rights in its neighbour. Questioning stereotypes of an increasingly 'authoritarian' Pakistan and 'democratic' India, Sarah Ansari and William Gould make a major contribution to recent scholarship that suggests the differences between India and Pakistan are overstated.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sarah Ansari is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London.

William Gould is Professor of Indian History at the University of Leeds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107196051
• ISBN 13: 9781107196056
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 332
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie