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Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia) (Updated Edition) by Gyanendra Pandey, G. P. Hawthorn, Patricia Jeffery Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-10: 0-521-00250-8 / 0521002508 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-00250-9 / 9780521002509 Through an investigation of the violence that marked the partition of British India in 1947, this book analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalisation of populations and their pasts, and the ways in which violent events are remembered (or forgotten) in order to ensure the unity of the |