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Nation building

Curating the Partition: dissonant heritage and Indian nation building

Author(s): 
Ted Svensson
Publisher/Sponsor: 
International Journal of Heritage Studies
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The article analyses recent public initiatives to memorialise the establishment of India and Pakistan as postcolonial states in terms of violent partitioning rather than as a successful act of independence from British imperialism. The twin focal points of the article are the Partition Museum in Amritsar and the online 1947 Partition Archive.

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