Anth Final: Pakistan vs India

Partition

produced india/pakistan as seperate political, cultural, emotional communuities

Borders

shape identities, memories, everyday life

After partition

border transformed relationships between people who has shared languages, traditions, markets, family ties

1947 Partition

• division of Brit india into india and pakistan

• caused one of the largest migrations

• violence, displacement, political conflict

Imagine otherwise

• to dominate political or social arrangements

• how communities, relationships, identities

Imagined communities (benedict anderson)

• Members will never know most of their fellow citizens, yet they still feel connected as part of a shared community.

• sense of belonging is created through shared media, symbols, narratives.

Invented Traditions (eric hobsbawm)

• practices, rituals, symbols that appear ancient but are recent creations

• help establish social cohesion, legitimize authority

• ex. national anthems, flags