The breakup of India and Palestine

This 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.