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The Great Partition

The Making of India and Pakistan

2007·251 pages·Nonfiction

Historical Fiction History & Politics

Examines the context, execution and aftermath of partition, integrating the knowledge of political manoeuvres with an understanding of their fundamental social and cultural consequences. This account draws together a body of research to reappraise independence and division and reinforce its catastrophic human cost.

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The Great Partition

The Making of India and Pakistan

Year

2007

Pages

251

Type

Nonfiction

Historical Fiction History & Politics

Description

Examines the context, execution and aftermath of partition, integrating the knowledge of political manoeuvres with an understanding of their fundamental social and cultural consequences. This account draws together a body of research to reappraise independence and division and reinforce its catastrophic human cost.

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