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The communal question and partition in British India and Mandate Palestine (2023)
Book Chapter
Shodhan, A. (2023). The communal question and partition in British India and Mandate Palestine. In V. Kattan, & A. Ranjan (Eds.), The Breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition (113-137). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170323.00015

In this chapter, the superficial similarity between the partitions of India and Palestine are probed and examined to reveal the structures of knowledge and the mentalities of governance that treated the populations of the two lands very similarly. It... Read More about The communal question and partition in British India and Mandate Palestine.

The East India Company’s Conquest of Assam, India, and “Community” Justice: Panchayats/Mels in Translation (2015)
Journal Article
Shodhan, A. (2015). The East India Company’s Conquest of Assam, India, and “Community” Justice: Panchayats/Mels in Translation. Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2(2), 357-377. https://doi.org/10.1017/als.2015.12

The East India Company troops fighting the Burmese aggression on the frontier of Bengal in Eastern India “freed” upper and lower Assam territories in 1825. David Scott of the Bengal Service was appointed to oversee the establishment of civil and reve... Read More about The East India Company’s Conquest of Assam, India, and “Community” Justice: Panchayats/Mels in Translation.