The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's Border Landscape, 1947–52
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Modern Asian Studies
- Vol. 33 (1) , 185-242
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x99003066
Abstract
The partition of India is customarily described in surgical metaphors, as an operation, an amputation, a vivisection or a dismemberment. By extension, the new borders created in 1947 are often thought of as incision scars.Keywords
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