"Changing Homelands" offers a startling new perspective on what
was and was not politically possible in late colonial India. In
this highly readable account of the partition in the Punjab, Neeti
Nair rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu
and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far
from being an inevitable solution, the idea of partition was a very
late, stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the
region.
In tracing the political and social history of the Punjab from
the early years of the twentieth century, Nair overturns the
entrenched view that Muslims were responsible for the partition of
India. Some powerful Punjabi Hindus also preferred partition and
contributed to its adoption. Almost no one, however, foresaw the
deaths and devastation that would follow in its wake.
Though much has been written on the politics of the Muslim and
Sikh communities in the Punjab, Nair is the first historian to
focus on the Hindu minority, both before and long after the divide
of 1947. She engages with politics in post-Partition India by
drawing from oral histories that reveal the complex relationship
between memory and history a relationship that continues to inform
politics between India and Pakistan.
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