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The Great Partition

the making of India and Pakistan
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Khan, Yasmin
Verfasser*innenangabe: Yasmin Khan
Jahr: 2017
Verlag: New Haven and London, Yale University Press
Mediengruppe: Buch
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The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom--through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and it benefited the few at the expense of the very many. Thousands of women were raped, at least one million people were killed, and ten to fifteen million were forced to leave their homes as refugees. One of the first events of decolonization in the twentieth century, Partition was also one of the most bloody.
In this book Yasmin Khan examines the context, execution, and aftermath of Partition, weaving together local politics and ordinary lives with the larger political forces at play. She exposes the widespread obliviousness to what Partition would entail in practice and how it would affect the populace. Drawing together fresh information from an array of sources, Khan underscores the catastrophic human cost and shows why the repercussions of Partition resound even now, some sixty years later. The book is an intelligent and timely analysis of Partition, the haste and recklessness with which it was completed, and the damaging legacy left in its wake. (Quelle: The London Library)
 
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Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Photographs
List of Maps
Timeline of Events
Introduction: the plan
Chapter 1 In the shadow of war
Chapter 2 Changing regime
Chapter 3 The unravelling Raj
Chapter 4 The collapse of trust
Chapter 5 From breakdown to breakdown
Chapter 6 Untangling two nations
Chapter 7 Blood on the tracks
Chapter 8 Leprous Daybreak
Chapter 9 Bitter legacies
Chapter 10 Divided families
Epilogue
Glossary
Select Bibliography
Index

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Khan, Yasmin
Verfasser*innenangabe: Yasmin Khan
Jahr: 2017
Verlag: New Haven and London, Yale University Press
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ISBN: 978-0-300-23032-1
2. ISBN: 0-300-23032-X
Beschreibung: new edition, xxxiv, 251 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten
Schlagwörter: Geschichte 1947, Indien, Indisch-pakistanischer Krieg <1947-1948>, Teilung, Geschichte, Nationalismus, Pakistan, Altindien, Bharat, Britisch-Indien, Hindostan, Hindustan, Indische Union, Landesgeschichte, Ortsgeschichte, Regionalgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte
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Sprache: Englisch
Fußnote: Ausgewählte Bibliografie: Seite [233]-242
Mediengruppe: Buch