HIS 498: Film and History: India's Partition
DIRECT LINKS TO ALL ELECTRONIC READINGS (under construction)
PEER REVIEW GUIDELINES AND FORM (.rtf document for you to open and use on any text editor)
PEER REVIEW PARTNERS' LIST AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Research Links
RESEARCH GUIDELINES and Sources (PLEASE DO CHECK THIS)
Jason Francisco "In the Heat of Fratricide: The Literature of India's Partition Burning Freshly" Annual of Urdu Studies vol. 11 (1996). A review article
A link to search Constituent Assembly Debates (sent by Caleb Coleman, who has had "mixed results" with the engine)http://viveks.info/search-engine-for-constituent-assembly-debates-in-india#comments
OUTLINES /STUDY GUIDES (copied from HIS 312: Gandhi's India)
Indian History: A Chronological Overview
Mughals to Europeans: An Outline With Links to Maps and Images
Outline # 1: Coming of British Rule
Outline # 2: Revolt of 1857 and Responses to EIC Colonialism
Outline # 3: Themes in Indian Nationalism
Outline # 4: Gandhi and Indian Nationalism, 1915-32
Outline # 5: Toward Independence and Partition 1928-47
PARTITION
"Toba Tek Singh" a short story by Saadat Hasan Manto (Frances Pritchett's translation)
Other Links to Toba Tek Singh from Frances Pritchett's page
The Legacy Project on India-Pakistan Partition
"Those Fateful Days" Three Essays by CM Naim on local Muslim politics in Barabanki
BBC's The Hidden Story of Partition and its Legacies
BBC's "Partitioning India Over Lunch"
Prof. C. M. Naim's review of the film Jinnah (information regarding Prof. Naim Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago) NEW
MISC
Bapsi Sidhwa's Web Page with links to Reviews
VIDEO
TAMAS (Darkness) A television mini-series directed by Govind Nihalani based on a novel by Bhishma Sahni. One of the outstanding, and earliest, representations of the traumas of partition on the screen, this was produced for Doordarshan, the state television channel in India. Unfortunately, I have not been able to locate any subtitled versions of this mini series, so the dialogs will not make sense without some knowledge of Hindi, Urdu, Hindustani.
Tamas Part I Tamas Part II Tamas Part III Tamas Part IV Tamas Part V
IN ENGLISH An Interview with Bhishma Sahni (IGNOU series on Partition Through the Eyes of Indian Authors)
Useful Research Links
Benjamin, A Student's Guide to Online History Resources
http://www.sacw.net/partition/
Internet Movie Database (probably the most extensive source for information about movies available on the internet)