Narratives of nation and division – Post colonial theory and the partition of India
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The normative way in which maps map out discontinuous space
- Ramaswamy: The mystical Hindu body-map with the British colonial scientific mapping process
- The mapping of space
- The anti-colonial agitation
- The ethnic violence during and after partition
- Indian-Pakistan border tensions and the struggle over Kashmir
- Apartheid in South Africa or segregation in the U.S.
- The cooperative sharing of territories
- The commission investigating grievances in Palestine and Samuels
- Said's Orientalism
- British colonial policy throughout the Empire
- His role in the debates in British Parliament
- Palestinian background in his writings
- What post colonial, post modern readings provide
- The emergence of the subaltern voice inside the former colonial subaltern
- Conclusion
- References
SummaryThis paper will explore the partition of India into India and Pakistan at the end of the era of British colonialism as a narrative story of the imaginary. (Bhabha, 1992). In order to discuss the rift between the two nations, which can be understood as exacerbated communal and ethnic tensions which take on a nationalistic form, the events will be framed in post-colonial theory and discussions as well of Said's Orientalism,(1982) which deals with colonial mapping of the 'collective other'. Narratives which re-frame the meaning of the historical event will help to reveal the social forces that were part of the transition period, and the violent emergence of Hindu and Muslim nationalisms in the new neighboring states, are examples of the liminal space where violence emerges in the post-colonial conflict that re-inscribes patriarchy. (Hayden, 2000) Apart from Said and Bhabha, other theorists' work which will be used to frame this discussion are Gupta, Ferguson, Foucault and Anzaldua.
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