Each week you will submit via Canvas a written response papers to the weeks readings. The length of these will vary depending upon the number and nature of that weeks readings. These response papers should include, for each assigned reading: a) a summary of the authors argument; b) what you learned from the readings; c) a question that you think would make for useful further discussion in class.
Read: Gyan Pandey, Constructing Community, in Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 175-205
Suvir Kaul, Partition and the Northwest Frontier: Memories of Some Khudai Khidmatgars, in The Partitions of Memory(Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002): 30-73.