A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom-through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and it benefited the few at the expense of the very many. Thousands of women were raped, at least one million people were killed, and ten to fifteen million ...
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A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom-through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and it benefited the few at the expense of the very many. Thousands of women were raped, at least one million people were killed, and ten to fifteen million were forced to leave their homes as refugees. One of the first events of decolonization in the twentieth century, Partition was also one of the most bloody. In this book Yasmin Khan examines the context, execution, and aftermath of Partition, weaving together local politics and ordinary lives with the larger political forces at play. She exposes the widespread obliviousness to what Partition would entail in practice and how it would affect the populace. Drawing together fresh information from an array of sources, Khan underscores the catastrophic human cost and shows why the repercussions of Partition resound even now, some sixty years later. The book is an intelligent and timely analysis of Partition, the haste and recklessness with which it was completed, and the damaging legacy left in its wake.
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I bought this book because I wanted to learn the ABCs of India's partition. This book delivered. I give it only 4 stars because at times it appeared to provide redundant explanations where it should have instead thrown in more vignettes.
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Nov 6, 2014
A Book Worth Reading & Keeping
One of the very few books that are a dispassionate and intelligent analysis of events around the 'HULCHUL' of Indian partition in 1947' Yasmin Khan has the advantage of being physically separated from events of 1947 partition. ( I think her family has lived in England for some generations) and this helped her write an analytical synopsis of the events that people like me ( I was born and raised in Indian Punjab) are looking for. It's hard to understand the mentality of people who encouraged and/or perpetrated the massacres of 1947 and ( to me those of 1984 too!) but a book like hers help us understand some dimensions of the outrage that this whole process of partition has been.
