Partition Studies: Prospects and Pitfalls

Abstract

Partition, unquestionably a pivotal event of the South Asian twentieth century, has become a subject of great significance in its own right.1Studies of partition began with a profound reexamination of why it happened;2they gathered momentum as scholars looked at the provincial and local roots of the drive to divide India;3and the subject took a big step forward when oral histories revealed how women and men experienced the traumas of its bloody upheavals, the violence of “the burning plains of the Punjab” becoming a metaphor for partition itself.4

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