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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)

by Yasmin Khan (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press (29 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300120788
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300120783
  • Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 326,327 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'This is a compassionate, scholarly but at times devastating book... for professional and amateur students of history, and for all those who wish to understand attitudes on the subcontinent today.' Judith Brown, Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, Oxford University"


Alex von Tunzelmann, Daily Telegraph, August 11 2007

Khan's book is splendidly researched, and she has an eye for illuminating details of how Partition affected everyday lives
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insight at nearly both a human and a practical level, 12 Sep 2007
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"Partition is a lasting lesson of both the dangers of imperial hubris and the reactions of extreme nationalism".

Ms. Khan's account of the destruction (and a little of the re-emergence) of stable feelings of belonging in South Asia is both searing in narrative and reflective of the dangers of haste at the top, both British and indigenous, to ordinary people compelled to live with the consequences of inadequately and simplistically visualized change. So much of the published history to date in English of the events before, during, and after Partition is about the dilemmas of the well-known figures who brought on, or tried to navigate, the always difficult passage from colonial empire to swaraj, self-rule. Ms. Khan takes a very valuable and radically different approach. Her book's narrative themes are developed from comments by, for the most part, middle class people contending with monstrous waves of fear, doubt, worry, anxiety, agony, and desperation.

The Great Partition tells how the ideas of Pakistan and swaraj triggered calamities that, with today's knowledge of cultural, linguistic, and religious development paths, could have been predicted. That they were not then is testimony to how much has since been learned by innumerable social scientists working in subjects barely conceived in the late 1940s as Pakistan and India began to emerge as independent states. Ms. Khan has rendered not only all those affected by Partition, but anyone charged with or aspiring to leadership, a service of great value. That she should be so young is especially good news, for what depth and breadth of insight can we expect from her next?

Missing still, at least to this reviewer, is a book that links the financial and political circumstances of Atlee's and Truman's governments to the horrendously unexpected and in due course calamitous decision of Mountbatten in early June 1947, when he announced -- to the surprise of virtually everyone around him -- that the dates of both Partition and Independence would be only 2-1/2 months ahead into what already was clear would be a riotful future.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction, 6 Aug 2008
An excellent history of the partition and somewhat uniquely the author tries make this a social history. The intricacies of deal nor the personal politics of the big players are not covered but you do get a sense of what the situation was like on the ground. However Yasmin Khan seems to get stuck between writing a full social history and straight forward linear one and as a result we sometimes only get a glimpse of both. Ideally this book should be slightly longer and focus more on what was happening on the ground, as it stands it makes for an excellent introduction to the subject though we are left wanting for more.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Historians still get this history of Partition wrong...., 3 Jun 2009
This review is from: The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Paperback)
1. I was flicking through this book and I found it that like most books about the partition it misses out Sindh.

2. Unlike Punjab and Bengal which were split into two between India and Pakistan. All of Sindh ended up in Pakistan.

3. At first there was not much violence in Sindh, but when Muslims from India came into Sindh, these (non-Sindhi) Muslims cause problems for the Hindus.

4. Hindu Sindhis where forced to leave everything behind. Many hoped to return to their homeland, once the violence died down but it was not possible. Many of the Hindu homes were occupied were looted and taken over by Muslims.

5. Today, the Hindu Sindhis are a stateless people. They don't have a homeland or state of their own and have had to spread all over India and scattered throught out the world. So this has consequences like the language and culture is dying....

6. Unlike Punjab and Bengal which were split into two. Not a Single portion of Sindh was given to India. Some 25% of the population of Sindh was Hindu. They contributed significantly to the economy of Sindh before partition.

7. I feel annoyed at many of today's historians, because they seem to get the history of the Parition wrong. They miss Sindh out altogether in their writtings. Even a BBC documentory on the 60th anniversary Parition of India, missed out Bengal, Kashmir and Sindh.

8. Most Hindu Sindhi focused on rebuilding their lives from scratch in India rather then correcting history.

9. Historian should see that Sindhi Hindus and Sindhi Muslims lived side by side in peace and harmony. And there was mutual respect for each others religions. And certainly a good role model.

10. What is of concern today in Pakistan today, they have re-written history to say Hindus 'left for the promised land' - not sure where they get this happy tale from?. But historians such as Yasmin Khan should correct history....

11. If anyone wants to read personal accounts of those who had to flee Sindh, should look at "Sindhi Reflections by Lata Jagtiani". It is an excellent book. Sorry, it does not have an ISBN and is publised in Mumbai.
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