"The present work is the proceedings of a two-day International Conference on, 1947 : Rethinking, organized by the Department of History, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra in March, 2015...The present work contains the full texts of 20 presentations out of nearly 110 presentations and addresses made at this International Conference"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index.
Contents:
Role of Hindu Mahasabha and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Bengal partition: a review / Amrita Haldar. The historiography of India's partition: between civilization and modernity / David Gilmartin -- Partition and family histories / Meghna Guhathakurta -- Back to Bengal movement in Assam in the early 20th century and Sylhet Referendum, 1947: going back for looking forward / Ashfaque Hossain -- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and the demand for Pakistan: a reappraisal / Muhammad Iqbal Chawla -- Sir Evan Jenkins as Governor of the Punjab and the Muslim-Sikh politics / Akhtar Hussain Sandhu -- United in sorrow: partition stories across the borders / Chhanda Chatterjee -- The Punjab Partition Massacres of 1947: an exploratory exercise / Sukhdev Singh Sohal -- Through the eyes of three women activists of Bengal: looking back at the crossroads sign 1947 / Uttara Chakraborty -- Obtaining independence: uprooting people / Ravi P. Bhatia -- The collective self and the collective other: construction of communal identities in colonial Punjab / Muhammad Abrar Zahoor -- Master Tara Singh and the congress / Nazer Singh -- Saumyendranath Tagore and his approach to India's partition in 1947 / Gouri Sankar Nag -- Property, rehabilitation and citizenship partition and Uttar Pradesh 1947-1952 / Aishwarya Pandit -- Leaving home with heavy heart: an attempt to understand the suffering of the Bengali refugees on the eve and after partition / Tridibsantapa Kundu -- Partition and ethnic cleansing in Punjab (1947) / Kanwaljit Kaur -- Partition of Punjab and aftermath / Gopal Parshad -- Migration led to marginalization: case study of Rajbanshis of North Bengal / Nandini Basistha -- Role of Hindu Mahasabha and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee in Bengal partition: a review / Amrita Haldar.
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