Yasmin Khan - The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, New Edition

THE GREAT PARTITION

Yasmin Khan is Associate Professor of History and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. The Great Partition, her first book, was the winner of the Royal Historical Societys Gladstone Prize and has been translated into Urdu and Hindi. She is also the author of The Raj at War: A Peoples History of Indias Second World War (2015).

Further praise for The Great Partition:

Intelligent and empathetic. David Gilmour, Literary Review

A compassionate and devastating book for all who wish to understand attitudes on the subcontinent today. Judith M. Brown, author of Nehru

Khans eye for detail strongly evokes the issues, personalities and events at this crucial moment in the subcontinents modern history. Narrative and sharp analysis go hand in hand in a work which bears all the hallmarks of a first-rate scholar. Ian Talbot, author of A History of Modern South Asia

A powerful book. Susan Williams, Independent

Khans excellent book attempts to unlace the great ambiguities that characterized the years immediately before and after independence. Ms. Khan succeeds admirably. Karan Mahajan, New York Sun

To a country that took its territorial unity for granted, the partition of India came as a rude shock; its impact reverberates through the pages of this illuminating book. Dietmar Rothermund, author of India

A touchstone in the retelling of one of the twentieth centurys greatest calamities. David Arnold, University of Warwick, and Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Asiatic Society

An exceptional book. Yasmin Khan has written a vivid, authoritative and accessible account of one of the greatest human tragedies and dislocations of the modern era. Andrew Whitehead, editor of History Workshop Journal and former BBC South Asia correspondent

A gripping and readable book that the reviewer would recommend for any course dealing with the Indian freedom movement, independence, partition, and the bitter legacy of those traumatic times. Gail Minault, Historian

Cover photograph: Sikhs migrating to their new homeland during the Partition of India. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

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