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Author Khan, Yasmin, 1977- author.

Title The Great Partition : the making of India and Pakistan / Yasmin Khan
Edition New edition
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 250 pages) : maps
Contents Glossary -- Timeline of Major Events, 1945-1950 -- Preface to the New Edition -- Introduction : The Plan -- In the Shadow of War -- Changing Regime -- The Unravelling Raj -- The Collapse of Trust -- From Breakdown to Breakdown -- Untangling Two Nations -- Blood on the Tracks -- Leprous Daybreak -- Bitter Legacies -- Divided Families -- Epilogue
Summary "This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Yasmin Khan is associate professor of history and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and author of The Raj at War : A People's History of India's Second World War
Print version record
Subject Nationalism -- India -- History
Nationalism -- Pakistan -- History
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Nationalism.
SUBJECT India -- History -- Partition, 1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291
Subject India.
Pakistan.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300233643
0300233647