Breakup of India and Palestine

Foreword by Lucy Chester
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Connecting the partitions of India and Palestine: institutions, policies, laws and people - Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan

Part I The partition of British India
1 The Mountbatten Viceroyalty reconsidered: personality, prestige and strategic vision in the partition of India - Ian Talbot
2 The paradigmatic partition? The Pakistan demand revisited - Ayesha Jalal

Part II The partition of Palestine
3 Partition and the question of international governance: the 1947 United Nations Special Committee on Palestine - Laura Robson
4 Fighting for Palestine as a holy duty? The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the partition of Palestine in 1947 - Mohamed-Ali Adraoui

Part III The partitions of India and Palestine compared
5 The communal question and partition in British India and mandate Palestine - Amrita Shodhan
6 India's dilemmas of pragmatism v. principles: Nehru's preference for a partitioned India but a federal Palestine - P. R. Kumaraswamy

Part IV The consequences of partition for South Asia, the Middle East and beyond
7 The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia - Victor Kattan
8 'Unfinished' partition: territorial disputes, unequal citizens and the rise of majoritarian nationalism in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - Amit Ranjan
9 Civil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 war in Palestine from a global perspective - Arie M. Dubnov
10 Partitioned identities? Regional, caste and national identity in Pakistan - Iqbal Singh Sevea

Afterword: Partition as imperial inheritance - Penny Sinanoglou -- .

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• Colonialismo, imperialismo e
• Politica comparada
• História da Ásia
• História do Oriente Médio
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000

Lord Mountbatten; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP); Muslim Brotherhood; legal jurisdictions; Federal Plan for Palestine; Mohammed Zafrulla Khan; majoritarian nationalism; war of partition; national identity