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Uncertain Comparisons: Zionist and Israeli Links to India and Pakistan in the Age of Partition and Decolonization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
Abstract
This article examines Zionist/Israeli comparisons and connections to India and Pakistan between 1945 and 1955. While Zionists found striking similarities between the unfolding realities in Palestine/Israel and South Asia, the exact nature of the comparison was quite equivocal. On the diplomatic axis, Israelis sought to establish full diplomatic relations with India by underscoring the similarity of their two nations. Here, comparisons were a way of positioning Israel as an analogue of India. On the technocratic axis, Israelis looked to Pakistan as a model for constructing legal institutions to expropriate Palestinian property. The appeal of Pakistan as a model was due to a perceived glaring difference: Pakistan was a Muslim state, Israel the Jewish State. Meanwhile, as Zionists/Israelis looked to India and Pakistan, Indians returned the gaze. Indian technocrats found the methods Israel used to resettle Jewish refugees and immigrants worthy of emulation. When they came to Israel to study these resettlement efforts, they were-unknowingly-often looking at projects that had been built upon former Palestinian land which the Israeli government had seized using the transplanted Pakistani law-the very same laws that had dispossessed India's new citizens, whom the technocrats were seeking to resettle. This article ultimately uncovers a broader post-imperial technocratic sphere in which nascent states continued to transplant legal institutions developed in other parts of the former colonial world to construct their own.
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The author thanks Arie Dubnov, Caroline Kahlenberg, Sandy Kedar, Gili Kliger, Aden Knaap, Jim Loeffler, Charlie Maier, Sam Moyn, Derek Penslar, Gil Rubin, Naghmeh Sohrabi, and Josef Stern, as well as the anonymous LHR referees, for their comments and suggestions. Earlier versions of this article were presented at a workshop titled “South Asia in 1947: Broadening Perspectives” at the Institute for Historical Research in London in June 2017, at the Annual Meeting of the Israeli History and Law Association in Jerusalem in October 2017, at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in Washington, DC in December 2017, at a workshop titled “Revising the Geographies of Modern World Histories” at the University of York in February 2018, at a workshop titled “1948: The Jewish Quest for Rights and Justice in the Postwar Moment” at Brandeis University in April 2018, and at a workshop titled “Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism” at Goethe University in Frankfurt in June 2018. The author also thanks the Posen Society of Fellows, the Israel Institute, and Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs for funding for this work.
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