• ISBN13: 9788126903146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: July 22, 2018
• Pages: 248
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 415 grams

An attempt has been made in this book to examine the writings of the Oxbridge scholars who have based their studies on different assumptions and have tried to cover various issues related to the partition of India. The author has made a serious effort to trace the course of the British historiography of India’s partition. In the light of new research and facts, several age-old, deliberate but fallacious assumptions and constructs have been deconstructed. In the process of this analysis several gaps have been detected and the underlying aims of the imperialist efforts have been exposed. On the top of it, various sophisticated versions of the theories of ‘civilizing mission’ and ‘whiteman’s burden’ in the post-colonial context have been challenged on several counts. In spite of several changes in the imperialist writings, it has been found that even the neo-imperial historians have been extending their support to the several myths, deliberately created by the orthodox imperial ideologues about India’s past and present. The only difference is that the former have been more delicate and sophisticated in their presentations.
Thus, this book opens up new areas for further research and will generate more curiosity among the students of Indian, Pakistani and British history and those who are concerned with the problems of nationalism and decolonisation.

Bishwa Mohan Pandey, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History Government P.G. College, Ramnagar in Uttaranchal. He has been Senior Research Fellow in the prestigious and reputed Department of History, Patna University, Patna. Before joining the Higher Education Service in the state of Uttar Pradesh, he had been teaching in the Post-graduate Department of History, Patna University since February 1995 as R.A. He has to his credit more than a dozen research papers and articles presented at regional, national and international forums. Some of his articles have been published in Journals like Gandhi Marg and in books like Pangs of Partition, The Parting of Ways, (eds.) Settar and Gupta and Science, Technology and Medicine in Indian History, (eds.) V.K. Thakur and K.K. Mandal. He has co-edited Bihar : Sthaniya Parampara aur Itihas (in Hindi) and Peasants in Indian History : Protest and Politics. At present he is working on local history and is co-author of a series on General Studies published by Kanak Prakashan, Patna.