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Life After Partition : Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh. 1947-1962 Sarah Ansari

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2005.Description: 240 pages L25Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.91804 SAR-L 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction: Community and Partition: Making sense of Community in south Asia, Partition and beyond: Myths and explanations. 2. Community and identity in Sindh before 1947: Identity and community in pre-twentieth century Sindh, the Opening up of Sindh, 1900-1947, Political significance of Community in Sindh before 1947. 3. Coping with the immediate challenge of Partition: 1947-1948: Getting the bandwagons rolling: Political reactions in Sindh, Crossing new borders: Regulating refugee traffic in and out of Sindh, Points of Disagreement: Karachi’s status and over-spill refugees. 4. Re-configuring Sindh: 1949-1954: Policies- the broader all-Pakistan picture, Competing for Political space, The Competition for resources, Drawing religious distincations. 5. Borders and Boundaries in Karachi: 1948-1955: Homing in on Karachi, Colonizing the city, Adapting Karachi’s cultural co-ordinates. 6. One unit to Martial Law: 1955-1965: The Impact of One Unit, Karachi in the late1950s, The 1958 KMC elections and the Jamaat-i-Islami, Martial Law; cleaning up the mess, the status of Karachi. 7. Epilogue and conclusion: bibliography, Index.
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Life After Partition

1. Introduction: Community and Partition: Making sense of Community in south Asia, Partition and beyond: Myths and explanations. 2. Community and identity in Sindh before 1947: Identity and community in pre-twentieth century Sindh, the Opening up of Sindh, 1900-1947, Political significance of Community in Sindh before 1947. 3. Coping with the immediate challenge of Partition: 1947-1948: Getting the bandwagons rolling: Political reactions in Sindh, Crossing new borders: Regulating refugee traffic in and out of Sindh, Points of Disagreement: Karachi’s status and over-spill refugees. 4. Re-configuring Sindh: 1949-1954: Policies- the broader all-Pakistan picture, Competing for Political space, The Competition for resources, Drawing religious distincations. 5. Borders and Boundaries in Karachi: 1948-1955: Homing in on Karachi, Colonizing the city, Adapting Karachi’s cultural co-ordinates. 6. One unit to Martial Law: 1955-1965: The Impact of One Unit, Karachi in the late1950s, The 1958 KMC elections and the Jamaat-i-Islami, Martial Law; cleaning up the mess, the status of Karachi. 7. Epilogue and conclusion: bibliography, Index.

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