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

May 20, 2014 - This is enjoyable reading for anyone new to the topic. Nov 27, 2013 - In the outset Jinnahs' idea of making another Secular Pakistan by breaking up from a already secular India was a stupid & a dangerous idea! Aug 14, 2012 - “Few years after the Partition, it occurred to the governments of India and Pakistan that they should divide their lunatics too in the way they had divided their other assets. The Great Partition and the Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan – Very good book on a very sad topic. Mar 24, 2012 - 'Pakistan was created to blackmail India' was the line that made me dig deeper into this conundrum called Partition and which never fails to titillate our imaginations to this day . Their attitude is more a function of India's mismanagement (and post-partition Pakistan's incitements) than of some innate hatred of Hindus. Given our An interesting fact lesser known perhaps is that, out of the 522 Indian soldiers who died in the Kargil war, 38 were Muslims, which makes them 10 per cent of the total Indian Muslim population, which implies that more Muslims died in that manufactured war of Kargil. Sep 27, 2008 - The huge market and the complementarities of arbitrarily divided ecosystems could have yielded great benefits. This was not an accident and we have referred a lot to the excellent book by Kamaljit Bhasin-Malik (In the Making: Identity Formation in South Asia) to explore this question. What's the need of a secular country when India is already secular? Dec 9, 2008 - With no real guidance on where to start reading about Partition, I chose Yasmin Khan's The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan . Oct 14, 2013 - Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought. Hence the Perhaps the answer can now be seeked in books such as “The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India”(Duke University Press, 2000) by Urvashi Butalia and “The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan” (Yale Univeristy Press, 2007) by Yasmin Khan. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Apr 21, 2013 - Themes in Indian History). Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India.