75 Years After Partition India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Preface

 Amit Ranjan and Farooq Sulehria 

Introduction: 75 Years After Partition: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Amit Ranjan and Farooq Sulehria

1. Language, religion, and identity: Hindi and Urdu in colonial and post-colonial India

Amit Ranjan

2. Ideological positioning in the representation of borders: an analysis of recent Hindi films

Ritika Verma and Anjali Gera Roy

3. Narrativizing partition and producing stigmatized identities: an analysis of the representation of Muslims in two Indian history textbooks

Devika Mittal

4. Building an ideological nation-state: migrancy and patriarchy in Khadija Mastoor’s novel, Zameen

Qaisar Abbas

5. Lollywood on partition: surprise departures, anticipated arrivals

Farooq Sulehria

6. Reimagining and reproducing the partitions (of 1947 and 1971) in textbooks in Pakistan: a comparative analysis of the Zia and Musharraf regimes

Mazhar Abbas

7. Cinema of Bangladesh: Absence of 1947 and abundance of 1971

Fahmidul Haq

8. 1947, 1971: history, facts, and fictions

Afroja Shoma

Biography

Amit Ranjan is Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book is India and China in Southeast Asia (edited with Diotima Chattoraj and AKM Ahsan Ullah) and The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impacts (edited with Taj Hashmi and Mazhar Abbas, Routledge, 2025). His papers, review essays and book reviews have been widely published in several journals, including Asian Affairs, Economic & Political Weekly. Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, amongst many others.

Farooq Sulehria teaches at Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore. He is the author of Media Imperialism in India and Pakistan (Routledge, 2018) and has co-edited From Terrorism to Television: Dynamics of Media, State, and Society in Pakistan (Routledge, 2020). He has a PhD in Development Studies (SOAS) and an MA in Global Media and Post-national Communication (SOAS). He has published over twenty book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in international journals. He has previously worked as a journalist in Pakistan and Sweden. He also edits, Jeddojehad.com, a multimedia site. 

The edited volume provides a valuable guide for understanding how narratives and representations of the division of British India have contributed to majoritarian nationalism in South Asia. As such it is a timely contribution to the field of study on the 1947 Partition and is deserving of a wide readership.

 

Ian Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Modern South Asian History,
University of Southampton