List of ContributorsForeword by Lucy ChesterAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Connecting the partitions of India and Palestine: institutions,policies, laws and people Victor Kattan and Amit RanjanPart I The partition of British India1 The Mountbatten Viceroyalty reconsidered: personality, prestige andstrategic vision in the partition of India Ian Talbot2 The paradigmatic partition? The Pakistan demand revisited Ayesha JalalPart II The partition of Palestine3 Partition and the question of international governance: the 1947 UnitedNations Special Committee on Palestine Laura Robson4 Fighting for Palestine as a holy duty? The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood andthe partition of Palestine in 1947 Mohamed-Ali AdraouiPart III The partitions of India and Palestine compared5 The communal question and partition in British India and mandate PalestineAmrita Shodhan6 Indias dilemmas of pragmatism v. principles: Nehrus preference for apartitioned India but a federal Palestine P. R. KumaraswamyPart IV The consequences of partition for South Asia, the Middle East andbeyond7 The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule inAfrica and Asia Victor Kattan8 Unfinished partition: territorial disputes, unequal citizens and the riseof majoritarian nationalism in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh Amit Ranjan9 Civil war, total war or a war of partition? Reassessing the 1948 war inPalestine from a global perspective Arie M. Dubnov10 Partitioned identities? Regional, caste and national identity in PakistanIqbal Singh SeveaAfterword: Partition as imperial inheritance Penny Sinanoglou -- .