The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition

This book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies.


About the Author

Victor Kattan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of Nottingham
Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore