The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition

Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan

ISBN 10: 9395474068 / ISBN 13: 9789395474061

Published by Sanctum Books, 2025

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The Breakup of India and Palestine is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies. It analyses why, even 75 years after partition, the two regions have not been able to address some of the pertinent historical, political and social debates of the colonial years.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition
• Publisher: Sanctum Books
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9395474068
• ISBN 13: 9789395474061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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The Breakup of India and Palestine is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies.