Inventing Boundaries: Gender, Politics and the Partition of India

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195662660
• ISBN13: 9780195662665
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.9" x 8.4"