01359pab a2200181 454500008004000000100001900040245006500059260000900124300001300133362001100146520088700157650002501044650001801069650002401087650002001111650001201131773003401143180718b2016   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aGauba, Kanika   aForgetting partition: Constitutional amnesia and nationalism  c2016  ap.41-47.  a24 Sep  aHistory's silence resonates in the textual silence of the Indian Constitution on the immense scale of violence and exodus accompanying the partition of the subcontinent, despite the contemporaneity of partition and constitution writing. Clearly discernible on a closer reading of the Constituent Assembly's debates are implicit influences of partition on key constitutional decisions, such as citizenship, political safeguards for religious minorities and provisions creating a strong central tendency in the union. The constitutional memory of partition, as a freak occurrence for which the "outsider" was to be blamed, resembles the understanding of official historiography. Behind these common registers of memory lie powerful nationalist narratives of identity and unity, which indicate a deep and abiding connection between constitutional amnesia and nationalism. - Reproduced.  aIndia - Constitution  aConstitutions  aNationalism - India  aIndia - History  aHistory  aEconomic and Political Weekly