Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India

by Mushirul Hasan (Editor)

This volume is a selection of the most significant writings on India's Partition. It rexamines why a people with a history of shared living and overlapping cultures responded so intensely to symbols of discord and experienced one of the most cataclysmic events in twentieth century
history.

402 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Mushirul Hasan was a renowned scholar and historian of modern India. He wrote extensively on the partition of India, communalism, and on the history of Islam in South Asia.