1. Partition has been accompanied by massive population movements that were both violent and eruptive in nature. The faultlines of this wruption took place along, regions, nations, localities, genders, ethnicities and families.

2. Partition resulted in new nationalisms and cultural boundaries that attempted to toe the line of territorial borders of the new nation.

3. With the movement of population comes displacements and relocation. This is accompanied by melancholia, nostalgia for the old homeland. Such melancholia shapes the cultural lives of new societies or run as an undercurrent in that society

4. Partition is gendered. It is perceived and experienced differently by men and women. Such perceptions get excluded from mainstream political discourses. Recent feminist writings on partition have sought to incorporate these notions back into history-writing.

5. Ethnicities and small nationalities get sidetracked too in considerations of nationalist history writing of partitions. Yet they too have been partitioned and especially those who live in borderland areas share common cultures across newly fashioned borders. Ecological disasters wreak havoc among such communities, who have had their traditional boundaries torn asunder. To many, such borders are a mere physical aberration to their continued existence and welfare.

References
Etienne Balibar, in Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein, Race, Nation, Class – Ambiguous Identities (Verso, 1991)
B.S. Chimni, International Refugee Law – A Reader (Sage Publications, 2003), section 5

Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta (ed), The Trauma and theh Triumph; Gender and Partition in Eastern India, Vol 1 and 2, Kolkata, Stree Publishers

Mushirul Hasan (ed) Inventing Boundaries: gender Politics and the Partition of India,New Delhi, OUP, 2002

Radha Chakravarty ( translated and compiled) Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India
Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Peace Studies I (Sage Publications, 2004), chapters 7-8, 13-14
Ranabir Samaddar (ed.), Refugees and the State (Sage Publications, 2003), chapters 1-3, 6, 9
Ranabir Samaddar, The Marginal Nation (Sage Publications, 1999), chapters 1-4, 13
REFUGEE WATCH, “Scrutinising the Land Settlement Scheme in Bhutan”, No. 9, March 2000
REFUGEE WATCH, “Displacing the People the Nation Marches Ahead in Sri Lanka”, No. 15, September 2001

Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Women in India’s Partition, new Delhi, Kali for Women,1998
Tai Yon Tang and Ganesh Kudaiysa, The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia, London, Routledge
Urvashia Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, London , Penguin, 1998

Web-Based

1. RW.: Displacing the People the Nation Marches Ahead in Sri Lanka http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch15_7.htm
2. RW.: Mohajirs : The Refugees By Choice http://www.safhr.org/refugee_watch14_5.htm