Partitioning the University of the Panjab, 1947

Bibliographic Data

ID8961544
AuthorsYaqoob Khan Bangash (0000-0002-1271-8947, LM South Asia Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, corresponding author), Pippa Virdee (0000-0002-2953-3180, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
Year2022
Volume59
Issue4
Pages423-445
Publication date2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00194646221130414
OpenAlexW4307679673
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

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