Dreams, Memories and Legacies: Partitioning India

Date
2015-08
Authors
Virdee, Pippa
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Routledge
Peer reviewed
Abstract
This chapter examines the dreams, memories and legacies of partitioning the Punjab. It explores the expectations people had and the results of brutal and violent partition, which divided the people of Punjab.
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History and Memory, Refugees, History of Punjab, India, Pakistan
Citation
Virdee, P. (2015) Dreams, Memories and Legacies: Partitioning India. In: Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India, ed Knut Jacobsen, Routledge
Research Institute
Institute of History