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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Yale University Press

[9] Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007, p. Feb 22, 2014 - If only Maulana Maudoodi, faithful to his pre-Partition thunderbolts hurled at Jinnah and the idea of Pakistan, had stayed on in India to carry out his religious duties there, no doubt to that country's lasting benefit, the history of But there is no doubt that in Heera Mandi in its heyday there was a great deal of 'husn' and Faiz Sahib being a discerning man, and a much admired man in different walks of life, could not have taken his guest to any but the best establishment. Jul 6, 2008 - Yasmin Khan's The Great Partition – The Making of India and Pakistan, is an attempt to capture the disastrous effects of the Partition on the ordinary Indians. It was one of the great post-colonial wounds, and it keeps on wounding, visibly and invisibly. A critical back story of fury and fear in our world, The Long Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 and after. Her work is well researched, and the narrative is powerful. Novels and films as well as scholarly texts have explored .. 68 years ago, subcontinent The older generation that witnessed the bloodshed and migration, meanwhile, has good reason to second guess partition given the current political instability. May 28, 2010 - The partition in the summer of 1947 of what had been British India into two separate nations –a predominantly Muslim Pakistan to the north and east, and a predominantly Hindu India– presaged tremendous outbreaks of sectarian violence. Aug 24, 2007 - "The Great Partition". Apr 16, 2014 - Today the development of the modern nation states (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) throughout the Indian subcontinent is a fascinating and heartbreaking process. New from Yale University Press: The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan. May 14, 2012 - As I looked at him I thought of Train to Pakistan and tried to imagine the murderous frenzy that overtook Punjab following Partition as Sikhs and Hindus massacred Muslims and Muslims massacred Sikhs and Hindus and a huge transfer of population took place to and from the . Jan 5, 2014 - This demand went explicitly unheeded, as the powers behind the partition insisted on making India and Pakistan as large as possible. And still it was a profoundly multi-religious society, so any project to create a Muslim Pakistan or a Hindu India would necessarily have to be an extremely violent one… The argument for Partition was decided in 1947 by a narrow elite. We mustn't forget that in much of Rajapaksas are Making Life Hell For Sri Lanka's Muslims. Those self-appointed social workers reassured Sirajuddin, with a great deal of confidence and sincerity, that if his daughter was alive they would find her and bring her back in a few days.