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No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
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That afternoon, as the sun dipped below the horizon, the remaining British men and women in the subcontinent sensed their time in the land rapidly slipping away. They weren’t alone and many Anglo-Indian, Armenian, Chinese, Jewish, Irish and Burmese communities who had flourished in India under colonial rule were also leaving. ‘It seems so tempting to stay on,’ wrote Keenan. “One is only 45 and there may be many years to come. However, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, I have dec
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― Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
― Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
