The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan - Couverture rigide

Khan, Yasmin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300120788 ISBN 13 : 9780300120783

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Great Partition The partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom. This book examines the context, execution and aftermath of partition, integrating an incisive knowledge of political manoeuvres with an understanding of their fundamental social and cultural consequences. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The partition of India in 1947 promised its people political and religious freedom, both through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. In reality the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the expense of the very many, exposing huge numbers of the population to desperate and devastating consequences. At least one million people were killed, thousands of women were raped and many millions were forced to leave their homes as refugees. It was one of the first, the most bloody, and remains one of the most significant, events of decolonisation in the twentieth century. In this book, Yasmin Khan examines the context, execution and aftermath of partition, integrating an incisive knowledge of political manoeuvres with a deeply felt understanding of their fundamental social and cultural consequences. She exposes the obliviousness of the small elite driving division, as well as the majority of activists on both sides, to what partition would entail in practice and its effects on the populace. Its repercussions still resound today. Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of partition, Khan's personal account draws together a fresh and considerable body of research, including many new interviews, newspaper extracts and archival sources, to reappraise independence and division and reinforce its catastrophic human cost. Intelligent, terrifying, wise and timely, Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan is a testament to a country and people who were brutally and recklessly ripped apart.

Biographie de l'auteur

Yasmin Khan is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of politics and international relations at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0300120788
• ISBN 13: 9780300120783
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288