Roundtable book launch of 'The breakup of India and Palestine -The causes and legacies of partition'

The Asia Research Institute and the History of Law and Governance Centre will host a roundtable book launch of The breakup of India and Palestine – The causes and legacies of partition, edited by Dr Victor Kattan, published by Manchester University Press. 

Victor will be joined by Dr Amrita Shodhan, Senior Teaching Fellow in History and member of the South Asia Institute at SOAS, and Professor Ian Talbot, Emeritus Professor in History of Modern South Asia at the University of Southampton. 

The book is the first study of political and legal thinking about the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947. The chapters in the volume, authored by leading scholars of partition, draw attention to the pathways of peoples, geographic spaces, colonial policies, laws, and institutions that connect them from the vantage point of those most engaged by the process: political actors, party activists, jurists, diplomats, philosophers, and international representatives from the Middle East, South Asia, and beyond. Additionally, the volume investigates some of the underlying causes of partition in both places such as the hardening of religious fault-lines, majoritarian politics, and the failure to construct viable forms of government in deeply divided societies.