{"product_id":"9781119673804-mapping-partition","title":"Mapping Partition","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePolitics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAPPING PARTITION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e “A hugely productive partnership between geography and history, ‘Mapping Partition’ does a great service to the field of Partition studies - it leaves us in no doubt about both the long-term cartographical processes that contributed to how South Asia was divided in 1947, and the importance of bringing a geographer’s insights to bear on this complex history of boundary making.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eProfessor Sarah Ansari, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor of History (South Asia), Royal Holloway University of London \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fitzpatrick produces spatial readings of partition’s knowledge formations, geopolitical imaginaries, administrative cartography, and legal geographical expertise. These enrich the histories and geographies of partition through painstaking archival, textual, and visual analysis which will resonate far beyond historical geography and South Asian studies.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eProfessor Stephen Legg, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eProfessor of Historical Geography, University of Nottingham \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMapping Partition \u003c\/i\u003edelivers the first in-depth geographical account of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. The book explores the impact of colonial geography and geographers on the boundary, both during the partition process and in the period preceding it.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on extensive archival research, Hannah Fitzpatrick argues that colonial geographical knowledge underpinned the partition process in heretofore unacknowledged ways. The author also discusses the consequences of placing different ethnic, communal, and linguistic groups onto the colonial map and the growing importance of majority and minority populations in representative democratic politics.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMapping Partition: Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan \u003c\/i\u003eis required reading for students and researchers studying geography, colonial and imperial history, South Asian studies, and interdisciplinary border studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41821658284129,"sku":"9781119673804","price":57.71,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32494063.jpg?v=1737670503","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781119673804-mapping-partition","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}