29 books
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5 voters
Partition Books
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Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as partition)
avg rating 3.94 — 32,511 ratings — published 1956
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as partition)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,018 ratings — published 1998
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,074 ratings — published 1988
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,631 ratings — published 2007
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,905 ratings — published 2018
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as partition)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,650 ratings — published 1981
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,975 ratings — published 2007
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as partition)
avg rating 4.17 — 147 ratings — published 1998
The Book of Everlasting Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,746 ratings — published 2022
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,233 ratings — published 2015
The Shadow Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,094 ratings — published 1988
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,368 ratings — published 1975
The Night Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,980 ratings — published 2018
Basti (New York Review Books Classics)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 3.70 — 782 ratings — published 1979
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Cultures of History)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 3.99 — 111 ratings — published 2007
What the Body Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,008 ratings — published 1999
Pakistan or Partition of India
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 765 ratings — published 1940
This Is Not That Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.50 — 88 ratings — published 2010
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.47 — 513 ratings — published 2019
पिंजर [Pinjar] (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,679 ratings — published 1950
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.00 — 307 ratings — published 2006
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.32 — 910 ratings — published 1997
Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,015 ratings — published 2023
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.87 — 197 ratings — published 2013
Aangan / آنگن (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,353 ratings — published
The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.39 — 121 ratings — published 2011
Partitions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.99 — 991 ratings — published 2011
Sunlight on a Broken Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,116 ratings — published 1961
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,251 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 — 2,125 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the Ganges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.02 — 212 ratings — published 1964
Stories About the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 1994
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.68 — 160 ratings — published 2022
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.96 — 96 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 — 213 ratings — published 2015
Partition: The Long Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.08 — 25 ratings — published 2014
Manto: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,171 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 794 ratings — published 1988
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.74 — 963 ratings — published 2009
This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.81 — 70 ratings — published 2013
Memories of Madness: Stories in 1947 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.76 — 50 ratings — published 2003
Tomb of Sand (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,085 ratings — published 2018
The Parted Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,038 ratings — published 2021
A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.93 — 410 ratings — published
River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,049 ratings — published 1959
“Partition memory is particularly pliable. Within it, the act of forgetting, either inevitably or purposefully, seems to play as much a part as remembering itself.”
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
― Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory















