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082	0	4	_223 _a954.56 GEV _b022251
100	1		_aGeva, Rotem, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDelhi reborn : _bpartition and nation building in India's capital / _cRotem Geva.
264		1	_aStanford, California : _bStanford University Press, _c[2022]
300			_a xiii, 349 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
490	1		_aSouth Asia in motion
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aDreaming independence in the colonial capital -- Partition violence shatters utopia -- An uncertain state confronts "evacuee property" -- Claiming the city and nation in the Urdu press -- Citizens' rights : Delhi's law and order legacy.
520			_a"Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges--mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the story of how the city was remade by the twin events of partition and independence. Treating decolonization as a process that unfolded from the late 1930s into the mid-1950, Rotem Geva traces how India and Pakistan became increasingly territorialized in the imagination and practice of the city's residents, how violence and displacement were central to this process, and how tensions over belonging and citizenship lingered in the city and the nation. She also chronicles the struggle, after 1947, between the urge to democratize political life in the new republic and the authoritarian legacy of colonial rule, augmented by the imperative to maintain law and order in the face of the partition crisis. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Geva reveals the period from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s as a twilight time, combining features of imperial framework and independent republic. Geva places this liminality within the broader global context of the dissolution of multiethnic and multireligious empires into nation-states and argues for an understanding of state formation as a contest between various lines of power, charting the links between different levels of political struggle and mobilization during the churning early years of independence in Delhi"-- $cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aDecolonization _zDelhi. _zIndia
651		0	_aDelhi (India) _xPolitics and government _y20th century.
651		0	_aDelhi (India) _xHistory _y20th century.
651		0	_aIndia _xHistory _yPartition, 1947.
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