Freedom's Cry: The Popular Dimension in the Pakistan Movement and Partition Experience in North-West India

by Ian Talbot

Talbot examines the role of popular participation in the Pakistan Movement and the social and psychological impact of the 1947 experience. He focuses particularly on the role of the ordinary citizen and the human dimension of Partition, draws extensively on fictional representation, and
provides comprehensive data on refugee resettlement.

260 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Ian Talbot is professor of history at Southampton University and one of Europe's leading historians of South Asia. He is the author of many books on the subcontinent.