Books by Neeti Nair

These chapters explain how and why questions of state intention and ideology that were passed over during the crafting of South Asian nations' constitutions have returned to haunt South Asia with greater urgency and consequence.

Neeti Nair's account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, partition-though advocated by some powerful Hindus-was a stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.