Radcliffe Line
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Are All Postcolonial Nations Brahmanical Constructs?
X.T.M asks whether postcolonial states are Brahmanical constructs, arguing that every successor elite preserves the borders it inherits. He draws on caste mobility, Sanskritisation and Radcliffe’s line, and notes the…
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From Indus to Exile: Notes from Delhi
The heat has gone out of the tribes, and what remains is argument. From a Delhi breakfast to Amardeep Singh’s talk on the Sindhi Nanak Panthis and the halls of…
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The Muslim Districts That Hold West Bengal Up
The post accepts that West Bengal Hindus have a real grievance over demographic change, but argues the three Muslim-majority border districts of Murshidabad, Malda and Uttar Dinajpur are the reason…
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Gurdaspur and Siliguri: The Two Necks That Held
The post argues that Pakistan opted out of the subcontinent, and that India kept both strategic ‘necks’, Gurdaspur and Siliguri, in 1947 and 1971, so claims that India is a…
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Interview with Radcliffe
Omar Ali reproduces an extract from Kuldip Nayar’s book Scoop, in which Nayar recalls Cyril Radcliffe saying he nearly gave India Lahore but kept it for Pakistan because it would…
