Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:51:31 +0000
From: LiamConnell <L.Connell-AT-herts.ac.uk>
Subject: Gujarat


I am teaching _Cracking India_ later on this Semester and anticipate 
comparisons between Partition and the present violence in Gujarat from 
students.  I'm not sure what to say about this.  My gut feeling is that 
such comparisons do have some merit in so far as both events can be linked 
to communalist nationalism to some extent (although is communalism an 
anachronistic term for the Partition riots?).  However, partly because of 
my own ignorance I cautious about drawing an easy line from the formation 
of independent India to the present day.  I'd appreciate some help, from 
those out there with a greater sense of Indian history, in placing the 
current events within a broader historical context.

Many thanks

Liam



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Dr Liam Connell,
Department of Literature,
Department of Humanities,
University of Hertfordshire,
Watford Campus, Aldenham,
Watford, Herts..
WD2   8AT



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