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The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
Jun 22, 2015 · In August, 1947, when, after three hundred years in India, the British finally left, the subcontinent was partitioned into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and...
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Sep 20, 2023 · Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Khan has an engaging way of writing history, and this book causes your jaw to drop several times. Here’s the opening, for example: “South Asians learned that the British Indian empire would be partitioned on 3 June 1947” (a mere two months before Independence!)
California. Guneeta Singh Bhalla. HUMANITIES, Summer 2022, Volume 43, Number 3. Photo caption. Few Americans know the story of modern India and Pakistan’s chaotic birth in 1947, or the Partition, as it is known, when British forces hurriedly retreated from South Asia.
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- My Name is Radha: The Essential Manto’ Recommended by professor Madhur Anand, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Partition in South Asia refers to that horrific year when an arbitrary red line was drawn across a map by British colonial rulers – namely, the last viceroy, Louis Mountbatten, and Cyril Radcliffe, a barrister from England who was given five weeks to draw the line that severed India and created Pakistan.
- Midnight’s Children’ Recommended by professor Geetha Ganapathy-Dore, “Université Sorbonne Paris Nord” Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children,” which won the Booker Prize in 1981, the “Booker of Bookers” in 1993 and was judged “Best of the Bookers” in 2008, has not aged one bit.
- Train to Pakistan’ Recommended by professor Amitabh Mattoo, University of Melbourne, Australia. Khushwant Singh’s “Train to Pakistan” is one of the most moving accounts of the Partition of India and the way local communities, which had lived peacefully for generations, were torn apart by the forces of communalism.
- Earth’ Recommended by professor Ajay Verghese, Middlebury College, U.S. Deepa Mehta’s 1998 film “Earth” is a chilling story about the horrors of the Partition.
May 4, 2021 · Partition split India and Pakistan in 1947 and affected millions of lives across decades. Journalist Anjali Enjeti's new novel explores the way people who don't process their trauma can pass...
Aug 24, 2021 · 5 Books That Humanize the 1947 Partition of India. When British India was dissolved, the territory was divided along religious lines. By Shaistha Khan | Published Aug 24, 2021. After 200 years of rule over the "Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire, the imperial power withdrew from India in 1947.
