'A valuable academic study of the subcontinent which is accessible to the serious general reader and enhances our understanding of some of its most intractable problems' - Judit M. Brown, Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford 'Tan and Kudaisyas set out a very clear and succinct historiography of partition and its place in South Asian history. It is a wide-ranging study with a strong comparative dimension, exploring the impact of partition and its legacy for India, Pakistan and Bangladesh...this is a valuable addition to the historiography. Most imporatantly, it points the way to further avenues of research.' - The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

• 1. Introduction2. Partition and the making of South Asian boundaries: disruptions and displacements3. Rememberances of 14-15 August 1947: rituals of independence, realities of nationhood4. A community in crisis: partition and the Sikhs, 1940-485. From displacement to development: partition and the East Punjab countryside, 1947-676. Divided landscapes, fragmented identities: East Bengal refugees and their rehabilitation in India, 1947-797. Capital landscapes: the imprint of partition on South Asian capital cities8. Punjab and the making of the Pakistani state9. 'Beyond homelands': partition and the South African diaspora