Partition's Legacies

Essays on modern Indian history and the legacy of Partition. Partition's Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji's finest and most influential essays. "Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations," she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book. Chatterji's first book, Bengal Divided , shifted the focus from Muslim fanaticism as the driving force of Partition towards "secular" nati