Pathway to India's Partition: The Foundation of Muslim Nationalism

Pathway to India's Partition #1

by Bimal Prasad

This is the first of a three volume study on the background of India's Partition, decidedly one of the seminal developments in the history of the subcontinent. Rejecting the widely held view that Partition was the result mainly of British manipulation and the mistakes or intransigence of certain Indian leaders, the author asserts that it was the result primarily of a powerful movement of Muslim nationalism. This volume is devoted to a discussion of the foundations of that nationalism.

319 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Bimal Prasad (1923-2015) was an Indian historian known for his scholarship on modern Indian history. He was Indian ambassador to Nepal during 1991-1995.