The Man who Divided India
Author | : Rafiq Zakaria |
Publisher | : Popular Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788179911457 |
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Author | : Rafiq Zakaria |
Publisher | : Popular Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788179911457 |
Author | : Rajendra Prasad |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0143414151 |
The question of the partition of India into Muslim and Hindu zones assumed importance after the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution in its favour in March 1940 in Lahore.
Author | : Barney White-Spunner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2017-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781471148033 |
The International Bestseller 'Barney White-Spunner's book stands out for its judicious and unsparing look at events from a British perspective.' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Review 'This book is at its most powerful in its month-by-month narrative of how Partition tore apart northern and eastern India, with the new state of Pakistan carved out of communities who had lived together for the past millennium.' Zareer Masani BBC History Magazine 'A highly readable account . . .' Times Literary Review Between January and August 1947 the conflicting political, religious and social tensions in India culminated in independence from Britain and the creation of Pakistan. Those months saw the end of ninety years of the British Raj, and the effective power of the Maharajahs, as the Congress Party established itself commanding a democratic government in Delhi. They also witnessed the rushed creation of Pakistan as a country in two halves whose capitals were two thousand kilometers apart. From September to December 1947 the euphoria surrounding the realization of the dream of independence dissipated into shame and incrimination; nearly 1 million people died and countless more lost their homes and their livelihoods as partition was realized. The events of those months would dictate the history of South Asia for the next seventy years, leading to three wars, countless acts of terrorism, polarization around the Cold War powers and to two nations with millions living in poverty spending disproportionate amounts on their military. The roots of much of the violence in the region today, and worldwide, are in the decisions taken that year. Not only were those decisions controversial but the people who made them were themselves to become some of the most enduring characters of the twentieth century. Gandhi and Nehru enjoyed almost saint like status in India, and still do, whilst Jinnah is lionized in Pakistan. The British cast, from Churchill to Attlee and Mountbatten, find their contribution praised and damned in equal measure. Yet it is not only the national players whose stories fascinate. Many of those ordinary people who witnessed the events of that year are still alive. Although most were, predictably, only children, there are still some in their late eighties and nineties who have a clear recollection of the excitement and the horror. Illustrating the story of 1947 with their experiences and what independence and partition meant to the farmers of the Punjab, those living in Lahore and Calcutta, or what it felt like to be a soldier in a divided and largely passive army, makes the story real. Partition will bring to life this terrible era for the Indian Sub Continent.
Author | : Urvashi Butalia |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822324942 |
Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
Author | : Patrick French |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2011-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241950414 |
At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end. Patrick French's vivid and surprising account of the chaotic final years of colonial rule in India has been acclaimed as the definitive book on this subject. Journeying across India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, he brings to life a cast of characters including spies, idealists, freedom fighters and politicians from Churchill to Gandhi.
Author | : B., Krishna |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2018-12-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9353024811 |
As prime minister of Britain, Winston Churchill had ordered the preparation of an imperial strategy with the intention of Balkanizing India and tightening Britain's post-war hold over her. The strategy envisaged two Pakistans, one in the west and the other in the east, both large in size at India's expense; the west to include the non-Muslim east Punjab; the east, the whole of Bengal (despite Hindus comprising almost half the population), and the predominantly Hindu Assam. Within her borders, India was to be Balkanized with the creation of independent confederations of princely states. Attlee's policy statement of 20 February 1947 was to implement the same, and Mountbatten was given the mandate to transfer power and quit India by June 1948, a date that was advanced to August 1947. However, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel foiled Churchill's strategy. This book examines Patel's extraordinary contribution, from his unflinching support to Gandhi's satyagrahas and the Indian freedom struggle, to his farsighted and courageous approach in building a strong, integrated India.
Author | : Mocktime Publication |
Publisher | : by Mocktime Publication |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : |
Objective History of Modern India (Topicwise Previous Papers) for UPSC & State PSC Exams
Author | : Rammanohar Lohia |
Publisher | : Hyderabad : Rammanohar Lohia Samata Vidyalaya Nyas, Publication Department |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Aura Smith |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015-09-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781341729256 |
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