A compelling and harrowing examination of the violence that marked the Partition of India.

Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of Anthropology and History at The Johns Hopkins University. He was a founder member of the Subaltern Studies group, and is the author of many publications including Hindus and Others: The Question of identity in India Today (1993) and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (1990).

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. By way of introduction; 2. The three partitions of 1947; 3. Historians' history; 4. The evidence of the historian; 5. Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946; 6. Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 1947-8; 7. Disciplining difference; 8. Constructing community; Select bibliography; Index.