Dreams, Memories and Legacies: Partitioning India

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2015-08

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Routledge

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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

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Research Institute