Pathway to
India’s Partition (Volume I): The Foundations of Muslim Nationalism
By - Bimal
Prasad
This is the
first of a three-volume study of the background of India’s Partition, decidedly
one of the seminal developments in the history of the subcontinent. Rejecting
the widely held view that Partition was the result mainly of British
manipulation and the mistakes or intransigence of certain Indian leaders, the
author asserts that it was the result primarily of a powerful movement of
Muslim nationalism. This volume is devoted to a discussion of this foundation
of that nationalism.
Dealing at the
outset with the legacy of the past, the author disputes the theory of a
perpetual, centuries-old conflict between two antagonistic civilisations in the
political arena. At the same time he shows how both the Muslim and the Hindu
elites had already become conscious of their separate identities before the era
of their modern political awakening began in the second half of the nineteenth
century.
He then moves on
to discuss the nature of the economic divide between the two communities and
the intellectual as well as emotional environment of the Muslim elite. At the
end the focus turns to Hindu nationalism and British policy both of which, in
varying degrees, worked as props for Muslim nationalism.
In every chapter
an effort has been made to synthesize the results of latest researchers as also
to prevent fresh interpretations.
Professor
Bimal Prasad, formerly Professor of South Asian
Studies and Dean, School of international Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
(New Delhi) and India’s Ambassador to Nepal, is at present Honorary Director,
Rajendra Prasad Academy (New Delhi).
ISBN 81-7304-248-9
1999 320p. Rs.600/ pounds 50
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