Uncertain Comparisons: Zionist and Israeli Links to India and Pakistan in the Age of Partition and Decolonization
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-7-2021
ISSN
0738-2480
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
From the end of the Second World War to the mid-1950s, Zionist and (after May 1948) Israeli politicians and bureaucrats repeatedly studied the unfolding developments on the Indian subcontinent. The events in South Asia fueled Zionists/Israelis’ “analogical imagination”: that is, the imagined analogy between the Yishuv (the pre-1948 Jewish community in Palestine)/Israel, India, and Pakistan. Some of the many parallels they saw between the tumultuous events in South Asia and the realities unfolding in Mandate Palestine/Israel included the maneuvers of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League in the years leading up to the end of formal British colonial rule, the violence and mass population displacements accompanying independence, and the Indian and Pakistani governmental efforts to absorb millions of refugees pouring over their borders.
Recommended Citation
Rephael G. Stern,
Uncertain Comparisons: Zionist and Israeli Links to India and Pakistan in the Age of Partition and Decolonization
,
39
Law and History Review
451
(2021).
Available at:
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S073824802000053X
