'Roundtable discussion: Comparing the partitions - India and Palestine 1947/1948' was an event hosted by the SOAS Library on 14th March 2024. The roundtable featured presentations by Victor Kattan, Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, Arie Dubnov and Laura Robson on their contributions to the book and responses by Nandini Chatterjee and Atef Alshaer, and was chaired by Amrita Shodhan. 

The decision to devolve power from imperial Britain to India and Palestine happened in the same year - August for India, November for Palestine. The recently published volume The Breakup of India and Palestine, examines the international and national circumstances of these decisions. 

Articles compare the long history of the growth of local antagonisms under colonial conditions, as well as the immediate context of the wars and the question of imperial continuity. The contemporary relevance of this reflection can hardly be over-emphasised.  Historical comparisons help focus the light on systems and processes as well as underlying political structures.  

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