The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
Title
The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
Subtitle
Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir
Price
€ 129,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789048558681
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
270
Language
English
Publication date
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Discipline
Asian Studies
Table of Contents
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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Partitioned Ethnicities and Emergent Borderlands: The Rola of Santaali
Chapter 2: Ethnic Plurality, Religious Assertion and the Everyday: The Past Through the Present
Chapter 3: Cultural Religious Plurality and the Sikh Faith
Chapter 4: Caste, Marginality and the Dalit-Religion
Conclusion
Annexure
Index

Malvika Sharma

The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent

Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir

Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity. Such diversity is historically embedded in the fluidity embodied by folds of Panjals. These folds encapsulated social, cultural, and religious plurality within the principalities that thrived here. The Partition of 1947 profoundly altered this by carving lines of demarcation—present day line-of-control—into the landscape. These lines have territorially, religiously and culturally divided ethnicities, including the Paharis of Poonch, known for multi-religious and linguistic cohesion. This book examines Partition’s impact on these pockets of diversity by exploring how Partition’s borders continue to shape social, symbolic and religious boundaries and how these boundaries impact shared plurality here. The work emphasizes the need to identify and archive sources of plurality so that their cultivation and practice continue to counter “the binaries” that essentially homogenize life-ways into categories of us versus them.
Author

Malvika Sharma

Malvika Sharma is currently a Nehru-Fulbright Post-Doctoral Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Religion, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, U.S. She has previously worked at Institute for Economic Growth, New Delhi. She has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research work has appeared in key journals such as H.A.U. the Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, among others.