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Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as partition)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,490 ratings — published 1956
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as partition)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,061 ratings — published 1998
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,676 ratings — published 2007
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,168 ratings — published 1988
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as partition)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,986 ratings — published 2018
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as partition)
avg rating 3.97 — 137,003 ratings — published 1981
The Book of Everlasting Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as partition)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,068 ratings — published 2022
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as partition)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,068 ratings — published 2007
The Shadow Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,265 ratings — published 1988
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 4.18 — 151 ratings — published 1998
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as partition)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,286 ratings — published 2015
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,566 ratings — published 1975
The Night Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,424 ratings — published 2018
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Cultures of History)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 4.03 — 117 ratings — published 2007
What the Body Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,040 ratings — published 1999
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पिंजर [Pinjar] (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,786 ratings — published 1950
Pakistan or Partition of India
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 791 ratings — published 1940
This Is Not That Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.50 — 90 ratings — published 2010
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.32 — 940 ratings — published 1997
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.48 — 532 ratings — published 2019
The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.39 — 123 ratings — published 2011
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.00 — 310 ratings — published 2006
Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.12 — 13,930 ratings — published 2022
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.88 — 202 ratings — published 2013
Aangan / آنگن (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,420 ratings — published
Partitions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.00 — 999 ratings — published 2011
Sunlight on a Broken Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,153 ratings — published 1961
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,389 ratings — published 1980
No Woman's Land: Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the Partition India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2004
The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.28 — 75 ratings — published
Toba Tek Singh: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,174 ratings — published 2008
Partition: The Long Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.08 — 25 ratings — published 2014
A Bend in the Ganges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.03 — 220 ratings — published 1964
Stories About the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 1994
Tomb of Sand (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,255 ratings — published 2018
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.67 — 171 ratings — published 2022
River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,094 ratings — published 1959
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.96 — 98 ratings — published 2000
Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.06 — 217 ratings — published 2015
Manto: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,229 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 812 ratings — published 1988
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.74 — 968 ratings — published 2009
This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.80 — 74 ratings — published 2013
Memories of Madness: Stories in 1947 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.76 — 50 ratings — published 2003
The Parted Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,096 ratings — published 2021
A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.93 — 416 ratings — published
“In my 12th / Intermediate Level in Ravenshaw College, I read the novel "Train to Pakistan" by the great writer Khushwant Singh. I read the struggles and sadness of the people from both sides of the border in the partition that happened in 1947.
I am poet, and I only believe in love and peace. We the homo sapiens are capable of great things, but let us not get narrow minded and hate each other. Our world needs more loving hearts.”
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I am poet, and I only believe in love and peace. We the homo sapiens are capable of great things, but let us not get narrow minded and hate each other. Our world needs more loving hearts.”
―
“Who is it that dares ask, the drowning ones—are they Hindu or Muslim?
Say instead, they are humans, they are the children of my motherland.”
― Independence
Say instead, they are humans, they are the children of my motherland.”
― Independence
