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Freedom's cry : the popular dimension in the Pakistan movement and partition experience in North-west India

Title: Freedom's cry : the popular dimension in the Pakistan movement and partition experience in North-west India / Ian Talbot.
Author: Talbot, Ian.
Publication: Karachi : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description

xiv, 246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Standard historical accounts of the emergence of Pakistan have been dominated by events and issues at the elite level of politics. This book introduces two new angles to the subject. It lays particular emphasis firstly on the role of popular participation in the freedom struggle and secondly on the human dimension of the Partition experience. In order to open up these fresh perspectives this study utilizes new sources, including the extended use of fictitional representation. In addition to the injection of a human perspective into the historical discourse on Pakistan's emergence, the author provides comprehensive data on refugee resettlement and bibliographical notes.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical (p. [233]-239 and index.

Contents

1 Popular Participation in the Pakistan Struggle: The Role of the Crowd -- 2 Crowds, Ceremonial and State Symbolism: The Role of the Muslim National Guards in the Pakistan Movement -- 3 Popular Participation in the Pakistan Struggle: Muslim Politics in the Punjab 1944-6 -- 4 The Partition Experience: Literature, Meaning and Culture -- 5 Train to Pakistan: Massacres, Migrations and Mohajirs -- 6 Hurmat Bibi's Story.

ISBN

0195776577
9780195776577

LCCN

96930504

OCLC

ocm37465060
37465060
SCSB-14424213

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library