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100			_aGauba, Kanika
245			_aForgetting partition: Constitutional amnesia and nationalism
260			_c2016
300			_ap.41-47.
362			_a24 Sep
520			_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.
650			_aIndia - Constitution
650			_aConstitutions
650			_aNationalism - India
650			_aIndia - History
650			_aHistory
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a112434
999			_c112429 _d112429