The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan ebook
Publisher: Yale University Press
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ISBN: 9780300176391
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Speaking of Chapter 2 leads us down the road to 1947, giving us an overview of the contested history of Muslim separatism and the emergence of the demand for Pakistan. 65 years after independence, the distance between India and Pakistan continues to grow. Yet Partition had a dramatic impact on Within months India and Pakistan were at war. Aug 14, 2012 - Anglo-Indians – the community I belong to and which makes up a minuscule section of India's Christians – have had just a walk-on part. Aug 18, 2012 - India and Pakistan: The great wall of silence. Jul 6, 2008 - Yasmin Khan's The Great Partition – The Making of India and Pakistan, is an attempt to capture the disastrous effects of the Partition on the ordinary Indians. M J Akbar August 10, 2012 | UPDATED 13:01 IST. Collectively it is the same story and the English is no exception: peoples of the world want the nice things don't they, and for whatever reason they rather create nicer roads in their neighborhood at the expense of african babies than drive around on gravel. Feb 22, 2014 - If only Maulana Maudoodi, faithful to his pre-Partition thunderbolts hurled at Jinnah and the idea of Pakistan, had stayed on in India to carry out his religious duties there, no doubt to that country's lasting benefit, the history of But there is no doubt that in Heera Mandi in its heyday there was a great deal of 'husn' and Faiz Sahib being a discerning man, and a much admired man in different walks of life, could not have taken his guest to any but the best establishment. Her work is well researched, and the narrative is powerful. Patrick, the son who had stayed on in In the mid-1940s, during the Great Calcutta Killings and the pre-Partition riots, she would walk down by the railway lines, from Sealdah to Ballygunge, tending to the injured. Oct 5, 2010 - 5) Yasmin Khan's The Great Partition[1] is a recent example of the narrative-approach propagated by Talbot and Singh, but in comparison, The Partition of India is a more clearly structured and accessible book with didactically well-formulated introductions and conclusions to each chapter. Jul 9, 2011 - Partition of India and provides a good overview of the fateful events leading to that cataclysmic decision by the British and the catastrophic suffering of ordinary people caught in the crossfire of communal hatred.