The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia

Kattan, Victor

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'The Third World is a Problem”: Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon (2023)
Book Chapter
Kattan, V. (2023). 'The Third World is a Problem”: Arguments about the Laws of War in the United States after the Fall of Saigon. In B. Cuddy, & V. Kattan (Eds.), Making Endless War: The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law (173-206). University of Michigan Press

The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia (2023)
Book Chapter
Kattan, V. (2023). The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia. In V. Kattan, & A. Ranjan (Eds.), The breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition. Manchester University Press

This chapter explains why majority rule remained the basis for the partition of the Indian subcontinent, but was not put into effect in Palestine as the Jewish population only formed a majority in one of Palestine’s subdistricts – the Jaffa subdistri... Read More about The partitions of India and Palestine and the dawn of majority rule in Africa and Asia.