A Tale of Two Cities: Partition and its Aftermath in Lahore and Amritsar 1947–1957
In the Chair: Judith Brown‚ Professorial Fellow and Beit Professor of Commonwealth History‚ Balliol College‚ University of Oxford.
Ian Talbot is a Professor of Modern British History‚ and the current Head of History in Humanities. His long term interest has been the division of India and the emergence of Pakistan‚ and he is a recognised expert in this field.
The creation of Pakistan in 1947 was accompanied by the division of the two major Muslim majority provinces of Punjab and Bengal. In the Punjab‚ the new international boundary ran between the neighbouring cities of Lahore and Amritsar. This lecture sheds light on the immediate and longer term impacts arising from the dislocation as widespread violence forced minority populations to migrate and the emerging ‘Cold War’ between India and Pakistan disrupted the cities’ old patterns of trade and access to raw materials. The socio-economic history of the cities in the post-partition decade sheds important light on both the continuities and discontinuities arising from the Partition of the Indian subcontinent.
Lecture details:
11 November, 6pm
Building 65 (Avenue Campus)
Lecture Theatre A
SO17 1BF
Tea and Coffee will be served at 17:30 in the North corridor.
A wine reception will be held following the lecture.