Mapping Partition - Politics, Territory and the End of Empire in India and Pakistan

List of contents

List of Figures viii
Acknowledgements ix
1. Remapping Partition 1
2. Surveying and Boundary-Making in Colonial India 34
3. Territorialising India and Pakistan 77
4. Geographies of the Punjab Boundary Commission 114
5. Oskar Spate, the Muslim League and Geographical Expertise 139
6. Partition to Partitions: New Avenues for Historical Geography 181
Index 191

About the author

Hannah Fitzpatrick is Lecturer in Human Geography at the Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research focuses on territorial partitions, borders, boundaries, and the history of cartography.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Fitzpatrick, Hannah (University of Edinburgh Fitzpatrick
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781119673835
• ISBN: 978-1-119-67383-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: RGS-IBG Book Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Geographie, History, Geography, Political Science, Politische Geographie, Political Geography, Asian Politics, Indien /Geschichte, Politik / Asien, Geschichte / Asien u. Australasien, Asian & Australasian History, Pakistan /Geschichte