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Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali.

The long partition and the making of modern South Asia : refugees, boundaries, histories / Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2007. - xiv, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Cultures of history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-278) and index.

The making of refugees, 1947 : Muslim exodus from Delhi ; Hindu exodus from Karachi -- Moving people, immovable property : Refugees, boundaries, citizens ; Economics of displacement -- Imagined limits, unimaginable nations : Passports and boundaries ; The phantasm of passports -- In conclusion : Moving boundaries.

ISBN: 9780231138468 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231138466 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231511018 (electronic) 0231511019 (electronic)

LCCN: 2007012702

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA751003 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013783595 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Refugees--India.
Refugees--Pakistan.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India--History--Partition, 1947.
India--Boundaries--Pakistan.
Pakistan--Boundaries--India.

LC Class. No.: DS480.842 / .Z37 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 954.04/2