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The Sikhs, Congress, and the Unionists in British Punjab, 1937–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Stephen Oren
Stephen Oren
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Wheaton College
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The period from 1937 to 1946, between the first and second elections to provincial legislatures held in British India under the 1935 Government of India Act, is one of great interest in Indo-Pakistani history. This was the period of ‘if only,’ the period in which it is still possible to imagine an unpartitioned South Asia.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , May 1974 , pp. 397 - 418
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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