Partitioning the University of the Panjab, 1947

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8961544
AutoresYaqoob Khan Bangash (0000-0002-1271-8947, LM South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, autor de correspondencia), Pippa Virdee (0000-0002-2953-3180, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
Año2022
Volumen59
Número4
Páginas423-445
Fecha de publicación2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00194646221130414
OpenAlexW4307679673
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas14

In the summer of 1947, as preparations commenced for the partition of the province of Punjab in British India, the Lahore-based Panjab University became the site of a fierce debate concerning its future. Waged within, by its officials as well as between the members of the Punjab Partition Committee, this debate saw the Hindus and Sikhs among them wishing for a ‘physical’ partitioning of the university, while the Muslims wanted it to stay intact at Lahore, which was expected to fall in Pakistan. With no agreement forthcoming, and after references to the respective ‘national’ governments, the university remained where it was, while any ideas of academic cooperation between the two sides collapsed as a new ‘East Panjab University’ was established at Simla, India. The debate over this new university, vis-à-vis its old counterpart, further carved out the university as a space of not just education but one of exhibiting new-found sovereignty and creating a staff/student-citizenry, in those partitioned times

Ancient history · Combinatorics · Library science · Partition (number theory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · University campus · History · Law · Mathematics · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora