Borders and conflict in South Asia, The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the partition of Punjab, Lucy P. Chester
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Borders and conflict in South Asia, The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the partition of Punjab, Lucy P. Chester
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Borders and conflict in South Asia
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electronic resource
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Lucy P. Chester
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MUP - Manchester Studies in Imperialism
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The Radcliffe Boundary Commission and the partition of Punjab
Table Of Contents
List of plates -- Table -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Note on terminology -- Introduction -- 1 'Standing on the edge of a volcano': The historical context of partition -- 2 'This is your country and it is up to you to decide': The façade of South Asian responsibility -- 3 'Nobody had been paying any attention to the case': The boundary commission at work -- 4 'Water was the key': Radcliffe's private deliberations -- 5 'A political decision, and not a judicial one': The Radcliffe award -- 6 'The stories they carried': The aftermath -- 7 'An awful lot of thought should have gone into it': Alternatives to the Radcliffe award -- 8 'In between, on a bit of earth which had no name': The development of the Indo-Pakistani borderlands -- 9 Imperial epitaphs: Cyril Radcliffe and the end of empire -- Conclusion: 'No such deeds':Responsibility and remembrance -- Note on sources -- Bibliography
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