The long partition and the making of modern South Asia
By: Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar.
Series: Cultures of history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780231138468; 9780231511018
Subjects: Refugees -- India; Refugess -- Pakistan; India -- History -- Partition, 1947; India -- Borders -- Pakistan; Pakistan -- Borders -- India
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The making of refugees, 1947 : Muslim exodus from Delhi ; Hindu exodus from Karachi; title: Moving people, immovable property : Emergence of the permit system, 1948 ; Evacuee property; title: Imagined limits, unimaginable nations : The emergence of passports, 1952 ; The phantasm of passports; title: In conclusion : Moving boundaries.