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Region and Partition is a book which, for the first time, brings a comparative perspective to the two Muslim majority areas of the subcontinent most affected by the turmoil which followed the British decision to divide and quit in 1947. This collection of papers, most of which were presented at the Fourteenth European Conference of Modern South Asian Studies at Copenhagen University in 1996, provide important new insights into both the mechanisms of boundary ...
In this, the first comprehensive study of the Sikh community in Britain, Gurharpal Singh and Darshan Singh Tatla look at how British -Sikh identity has developed from the nineteenth century to the present. At a time when much public debate centres on Muslim integration, this is a highly valuable alternative perspective on the challenges faced by another Asian community in becoming part of multicultural Britain. Using a vast amount of new source material, the ...