The Great Partition
The Making of India and Pakistan

Any baseline for discussing the Partition of the Indian subcontinent has to contend with the deaths and displacement of over 12 million people in its immediate aftermath, subsequent wars that killed and maimed hundreds of thousands more, permanently militarized borders, crippling rates of defense sp......more

The partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947 was the single most violent incident in the country’s history. Bloodshed is nothing new to India. Rivers of blood flowed in the incessant foreign raids during the 1000 years of Muslim hegemony and 200 years of British rule. But......more

A break-up is such a drag. But if you thought your recent break-up was a mess, then you better get to know what is probably the messiest break-up in history: the partition of British India into today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. When I first saw this book in my workplace's library, I thought it......more

This book is an outstanding example of scholarship. What makes this book so superlative is that Yasmin Khan combines personal insight with real-life examples. Very rarely do you find non-fiction books that are page-turners, but this is one such tome. Like many second generation Pakistani's, I have a......more