Partition of India
Partition Split Us Up: Can We Live in Peace as Neighbors? –
– Dr Vinod Mubayi Dr Vinod Mubayi, Public Intellectual, Scientist and Activist will be delivering the 20 th Lecture in the Democracy Dialogues Series, organised by New Socialist Initiative on Sunday, 30 th October at 7 PM (IST) He will be speaking on Partition Split Us Up: Can We Live in Peace as Neighbors? Future … Continue reading Partition Split Us Up: Can We Live in Peace as Neighbors? – →
The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions – Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy
Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, eminent physicist, author, public intellectual and a forceful voice for reason, science and democracy will be delivering the 19th Democracy Dialogues lecture on Sunday, October 9th, 2022 at 6 PM (IST) The Partition of India: Three Outstanding Questions Seventy five years after the communal storm of 1947 countless important questions still remain.
Why remember Partition? And what to remember? Ayesha Kidwai
AYESHA KIDWAI reflects on the injustice done to Bilkis Bano on the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, by the release of the 11 convicted rapists (who raped her during the Gujarat carnage of 2002, and killed her 3 year-old daughter), by way of her translation of Krishn Chander’s short story written in 1948, entitled Ek Tawaif … Continue reading Why remember Partition? And what to remember? Ayesha Kidwai →
Two Nation Theory: Pot calling the kettle black
While inaugurating the “Wall of Fame-1971 Indo-Pak war” at a Sunday’s event, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said, “The 1971 war tells us that the Partition of India on the basis of religion was a “historic mistake and Pakistan was born in the name of one religion but it could not remain one.” It was not only Muslim League that demanded[Read More...]
Negotiations for Transfer of Power and Partition
In the early days of World War II, activism was in a state of suspended animation on the political front in India. Nearly the whole of the Congress leadership was in jail and their followers were lying low. British forces had suffered reverses everywhere; they had been driven out of Europe and thrown out of their far Eastern[Read More...]
Why Remember Partition Horror?
India’s partition has been one of the major tragedies of the twentieth Century World. The loss of lives and the mass migrations have very few equivalent tragedies in the World. The wounds of the tragedy are not totally healed but people have engaged with the changed dynamics of nationalism. In the middle of all the gnawing problems which India is[Read More...]
Partition of India: Dalits in the midst of Communal Violence and Language Controversy
Historiography of the Partition of India and historical narratives generally focuses on violence among religious groups, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. In these narratives, Dalits, more often than not, find themselves being silenced, where they are treated as a subset of Hindus or Sikhs. It is a general notion that Dalits were not targeted for their caste identity but only for[Read More...]
Final Responsibility Of Partition? Whose? A Brief Analysis!
Even after seventy years of Partition, the discourse as to who, Jinnah or Nehru, Indian Muslim League or Indian National Congress, was responsible for division of the Indian subcontinent. There are divergent views. Some blame Muslim League, some Congress while others both. Every one of these views has some arguments to put before us. From Congress point of view, since[Read More...]