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September 21, 2020
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This is the truly incredible story of India's gaining of indepence, after 90 years of British rule, as well as the creation of the nation of Pakistan, in 1947. In a few short years 14.5 million people would leave their homes and be relocated. The dream that was Partition quickly became a nightmare, due to bungled decisions by those in power. Nearly a million people died, and countless lost their livelihood and homes, in what is one of the largest and fastest human migrations in history. Partition changed the face of Asia, and it's effects are still felt today. What makes this book so engaging and moving though are the individual accounts of those involved who are now in their eighties and nineties.
Nick The Book Grocer
This is the truly incredible story of India's gaining of indepence, after 90 years of British rule, as well as the creation of the nation of Pakistan, in 1947. In a few short years 14.5 million people would leave their homes and be relocated. The dream that was Partition quickly became a nightmare, due to bungled decisions by those in power. Nearly a million people died, and countless lost their livelihood and homes, in what is one of the largest and fastest human migrations in history. Partition changed the face of Asia, and it's effects are still felt today. What makes this book so engaging and moving though are the individual accounts of those involved who are now in their eighties and nineties.
Nick The Book Grocer
June 18, 2023
A hard read, but one worth it, chronicling what led up to the partition of India in 1947. That England had remained in India far too long is undeniable; that it treated India differently from other countries it had invaded is also undeniable, as are the reasons for this.
Chronicling the year when it finally happened, this book mixes personal accounts and memories of those involved with official records which, it is openly stated, are often unreliable. There were so many potential ways this could have occurred without the loss of over a million lives, but through the recounting you see the butting of heads and lack of understanding or care that made it inevitable.
Chronicling the year when it finally happened, this book mixes personal accounts and memories of those involved with official records which, it is openly stated, are often unreliable. There were so many potential ways this could have occurred without the loss of over a million lives, but through the recounting you see the butting of heads and lack of understanding or care that made it inevitable.
April 16, 2024
A very creditable and comprehensive history of a dark period in the history of India, Pakistan and Britain.An object lesson in how not to effect regime change.
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