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Author : Rafiq Zakaria
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : 8179911454
Author : Rafiq Zakaria
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:652059397
Author : Rajendra Prasad
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143414155
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 : Urvashi Butalia
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822324946
Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
Author : Nisid Hajari
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781445648095
After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protégé and the political leader of India, believed Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand. But in August 1946, exactly a year before Independence, Calcutta erupted in street-gang fighting. A cycle of riots - targeting Hindus, then Muslims, then Sikhs - spiraled out of control. As the summer of 1947 approached, all three groups were heavily armed and on edge, and the British rushed to leave. Hell let loose. Trains carried Muslims west and Hindus east to their slaughter. Some of the most brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing in modern history erupted on both sides of the new border, carving a gulf between India and Pakistan that remains a root cause of many evils. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, the searing tale told in Midnight's Furies explains all too many of the headlines we read today.
Author : Aanchal Malhotra
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787381209
Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?
Author : Samanth Subramanian
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466878747
Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island. In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to an end the civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere, leaving few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, he tells the story of Sri Lanka today. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories.
Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300233643
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan 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. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Author : Ban Ki-moon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231552783
Born just one year before the United Nations itself, Ban Ki-moon came of age with the world body. His earliest memories are haunted by the sound of bombs dropping on his Korean village and the sight of fires consuming what remained. The six-year-old boy fled with his family, trudging for miles in mud-soaked shoes, suffering from incessant hunger, and wondering how they would survive—until the United Nations rescued them. Young Ban Ki-moon grew up determined to repay this lifesaving generosity. Resolved is Ban Ki-moon’s personal account of his decade at the helm of the organization during a period of historic turmoil and promise. Meeting challenges and resistance with a belief in the UN’s mission of peace, development, and human rights, he steered the United Nations through a volatile period that included the Arab Spring, nuclear pursuits in Iran and North Korea, the Ebola epidemic, and brutal new conflicts in Central Africa. As secretary-general, Ban also forged global agreements to fight extreme poverty and address the climate crisis. Ban performed what has been called “the most impossible job on this earth” with a genuine belief in collective action and global transformation. Freed from the diplomatic constraints of a lifetime of public service, he offers a candid assessment of the people and events that shape our era and a bracing analysis of what lies ahead.
Author : Madhav Khosla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 9780674980877
"How did the founders of the most populous democratic nation in the world meet the problem of establishing a democracy after the departure of foreign rule? The justification for British imperial rule had stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. At the heart of India's founding moment, in which constitution-making and democratization occurred simultaneously, lay the question of how to implement democracy in an environment regarded as unqualified for its existence. India's founders met this challenge in direct terms-the people, they acknowledged, had to be educated to create democratic citizens. But the path to education lay not in being ruled by a superior class of men but rather in the very creation of a self-sustaining politics. Universal suffrage was instituted amidst poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. Under the guidance of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian lawmakers crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable of conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian constitution-the longest in the world-came into effect. More than half of the world's constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late-eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries that are characterized by low levels of economic growth and education; are divided by race, religion, and ethnicity; and have democratized at once, rather than gradually. The Indian founding is a natural reference point for such constitutional moments-when democracy, constitutionalism, and modernity occur simultaneously"--
Author : Kavita Puri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408899069
UPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION 'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narratives back to life. It's hard to convey just how important this book is' Sathnam Sanghera 'The most humane account of partition I've read ... We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer ________________________ Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent developments in the lives of those affected by partition. The division of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 into India and Pakistan saw millions uprooted and resulted in unspeakable violence. It happened far away, but it would shape modern Britain. Dotted across homes in Britain are people who were witnesses to one of the most tumultuous events of the twentieth century. But their memory of partition has been shrouded in silence. In her eye-opening and timely work, Kavita Puri uncovers remarkable testimonies from former subjects of the Raj who are now British citizens – including her own father. Weaving a tapestry of human experience over seven decades, Puri reveals a secret history of ruptured families and friendships, extraordinary journeys and daring rescue missions that reverberates with compassion and loss. It is a work that breaks the silence and confronts the difficult truths at the heart of Britain's shared past with South Asia.
Author : Vikram Seth
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : 0140230335
Author : Yanna Krupnikov,John Barry Ryan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108831123
The key to understanding the current wave of American political division is the attention people pay to politics.
Author : Joya Chatterji
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521523281
An original and compelling account of the Hindu partitionist movement in Bengal.
Author : Gurcharan Das
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385720748
India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation’s rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium. Das shows how India’s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider’s perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.
