The author of Changing Homelands, Neeti Nair, recognises communalism (of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, for example) as a separate strand in the politics of Punjab over four decades that culminated in Partition in 1947. In fact, she refers to several attempts, post-Independence, by the practitioners of communal politics to draw mileage from either partial or warped memories of Partition.