Tyrany of Partition: Hindus in Bangladesh and Muslims in India - Hardcover

The establishment of new nation-states after the partition of British India in 1947 not only required new geographical boundaries but also a cognitive map with mental borders that inform who are included and excluded. This book concerns the 'tyrannical' workings of such borders on the mind of nation-builders in both Bangladesh and India. In the end, the author argues that if the continuation of the two nation-states circumscribed by geographical borders is desired, their cognitive maps have to be altered through new mental borders that de-partition these societies., About The Author:- Dr. Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff, is Director Research in the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), Ranchi, Jharkhand (India)., Contents:- Acknowledgment · Glossary · List of Map and Photographs · The Creation of New Nation-States in Partition · The Working of Mental Borders in Pakistan · The Working of Mental Borders in Bangladesh · Living with the Burden of Other People's History in Bangladesh · The Working of Mental Borders in India · Living with the Burden of Other People's History in Jharkhand · Challenging the Mental Borders of Partition Rhetoric in Jharkhand · Conclusion: Making an Event out of Partition · Bibliography · Index