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Chapter 9 - Partition of India

from Part II - Separate Paths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2025

Andreas Maercker
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University of Zurich
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This shorter chapter focuses on one groundbreaking bio-psycho-social network meta-study related to historical trauma in the virtual absence of social science studies. It centers on studies on health and associated health disparities in diaspora populations with migrants from India and Pakistan of the second and third generations. Topics are suicide rates of South Asian women, somatoform symptoms and disorders, and physical health conditions like cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In addition, an anthology is included on psychiatric, historical, and literary science case studies in which one chapter analyzes the metaphorical use of ‘madness’ as a description of the historical events. It presents small-scale studies from microeconomics on the impact of education, the autoethnography of cultural mourning, and a psychological experiment that examines social identity theory in relation to mutual rejection between Hindus and Muslims. As potential remedies, various forms of commemoration are examined, as they have evolved in India and in the diaspora over the last decade.

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  • Partition of India
  • Andreas Maercker, University of Zurich
  • Book: Historical Trauma
  • Online publication: 20 November 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009629744.012
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  • Partition of India
  • Andreas Maercker, University of Zurich
  • Book: Historical Trauma
  • Online publication: 20 November 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009629744.012
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  • Partition of India
  • Andreas Maercker, University of Zurich
  • Book: Historical Trauma
  • Online publication: 20 November 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009629744.012
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