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The Fashioning of a Frontier: The Radcliffe Line and Bengal's Border Landscape, 1947–52

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1999

Joya Chatterji
Joya Chatterji
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Abstract

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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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 185 - 242
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press