Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from April 2002

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from April 2002

Partition: on the discriminations of modernity.(partition of India and Pakistan)
April 1, 2002... A couple of years after the Partition of the country, it occurred to the respective governments of India and Pakistan that inmates of lunatic asylums, like prisoners, should also be exchanged. Muslim lunatics in India should be transferred to...

A necessary journey: a story of friendship and reconciliation.(partition of Pakistan and India)
April 1, 2002... In the year 2000, fifty-two years after Partition and fifty-four years after he had left, Bir Bahadur Singh, a Sikh survivor of Partition, returned to his home village of Saintha in Rawalpindi district, Pakistan. I accompanied him on this...

The long life of rumor.(partition of India and Pakistan)
April 1, 2002... Genocidal violence leaves but a broken historical trace. Not surprisingly, therefore, the surviving records of the subcontinent's (1) Partition are marked by their fragmentariness. They move, in fits and starts, through jerks and breaks and...

Methodical worlds: Partition, secularism, and communalism in India.(partition of India and Pakistan)
April 1, 2002... Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, was the bastard offspring of a one-shot encounter between a departing Britisher, William Methwold (last of a long line of angrezi robber barons), and Vanita, wife of a poor...

"Honourable resolutions": gendered violence, ethnicity, and the nation.(partition of India and Pakistan)
April 1, 2002... Khushwant Singh's 1956 novel Train to Pakistan features a crucial moment in which Hukum Ghand, the magistrate sent to maintain law and order in the village of Mano Majra in 1947, reflects critically on the dominant image that emblematized...

Partition blues.(partition of India and Pakistan)
April 1, 2002... The migrant is an uncertain and incomplete man. He lives in an inveterate state of unease. Henk van Woerden Prelude: A Fatal Unease In a stunning literary performance, Henk van Woerden reconstructs the fatal encounter between...