This page is meant as an educational resource and guide to works on the topic of the Indian partition, communalism, and modern South Asian history and literature.

The list of books and films compiled below constitutes a selective guide to some important works – in literature, film, history, and anthropology – for the cultural and historical study of Partition. This list will be updated on an ongoing basis.

Books . Films . Websites

“Select Research Bibliography on the Partition of India”
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/
Independent/partition_bibliography.html

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/SouthAsia/Lib/man08par97.html

http://www.indhistory.com/partition-independence.html

“The Partition of India”
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Part.html

Brittanica Online: India
http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=macro/5003/4/toc.html

India-Pakistan Partition
http://www.legacy-project.org/index.php?page=event_detail&eventID=10

History Today: India and the British
http://www.historytoday.com/today/0997/main.stm

Itihaas: Chronology-Modern India-1757 AD to 1947 AD
http://www.itihaas.com/modern/index.html

“India and Pakistan: partition lessons”
http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/
conflicts/india_pakistan/partition 		Celebrating 50 Years of Freedom
http://www.indiaconnect.com/freedom/jun0347.htm

Indolink Analysis: The Ideology of Pakistan
http://www.indolink.com/Analysis/pakIdlgy.html

http://econets.com/hmhc/partition.html

India’s Partition and the Creation of Pakistan
http://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=825

TIME Essay: Hurrying Midnight
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/1997/int/970811/spl.midnight.html

Hindu and Muslim: The Gospel of Hate
http://electron.rutgers.edu/~myadav/war71/wall/dec6c.html

Light at a Half Century's End?
http://archive.abcnews.com/sections/world/indiapak814/index.html

Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India's Partition
http://152.1.96.5/jouvert/issue2/Didur.htm

Contemporary Conflicts: Kashmir
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/wars/kash.html
© Kavita Daiya, 2007