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| CONTENTS:- 1. Partition memories: a daughter's testimony/Nonica Datta; 2. The 1947 Vivisection of India: the political usage of a carnage in the era of citizen-massacres/Max Jean Zins; 3. Hindu nationalists and their critique of monotheism: the relationship between nation, religion and violence/Mitsuhiro Kondo; 4. Citizenship and difference: the Muslim question in India/Gyanendra Pandey; 5. Constituting the 'Backward but proud Muslim': pedagogy, governmentality and identity in colonial India/Sanjay Seth; 6. Mobilizing for a Hindu homeland: Dalits, Hindu nationalism and partition in Bengal (1947)/Sekhar Bandyopadhyay; 7. Mirrors of the Colonial state: the frontier areas between North East India and Burma/Takeshi Fujii; 8. The transfer of economic power in India: Indian big business, the British Raj and development planning, 1930-1948/Nariaki Nakazato; 9. India and Pakistan: why the difference?/Mushirul Hasan; 10. Resisting modernity: two stories, one, colonial, another, postcolonial/M.S.S. Pandian; 11. The backward classes movement and reservation in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh: a comparative perspective/Norio Kondo; 12. From princely symbol to conservation icon: a political history of the Lion in India/Mahesh Rangarajan; 13. Indian foreign policy and security perspectives: past practice and future possibilities/Achin Vanaik; 14. Anopheles factor and human factor: Malaria control under the Colonial rule, India and Taiwan/Kohei Wakimura; 15. Bengal agriculture during the Inte-war depression/M. Mufakharul Islam. |
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| This volume provides multidisciplinary perspectives on nation building in South Asia. It results from an interchange of views and perspectives between Indian and Japanese scholars who participated in a conference held at the institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. The essays are closely interlinked thematically and yet each is self-contained. The contributors, a judicious blend of academics and social activists, discuss wide-ranging themes and their remifications within the framework of colonial society and the post-Independence Indian State. They also attempt to historicise the nature, scale and depth of the changes ushered in by the transfer of power. This book focuses attention on diverse aspects of continuity and change in the subcontinent. It takes within its compass such fundamental questions as the economic aspects of the transfer of power, the impact of partition, tensions and violence between Hindus and Muslims, the ideology of majoritarianism and its interaction with the state and society at large, and the mobilization of lower castes and dalits. Issues of health, education, forestry, agricultural production and foreign policy are also examined. This book is neither a millennium volume nor does it offer an exhaustive appraisal of India's past and present. Concerned scholars in India and Japan explore, from their very different perspectives, some of the challenges before the Indian Republic in its quest for a democratic, secular and egalitarian society. In so doing, they bridge the artificial divide that separates social science disciplines. |
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