This omnibus edition brings together for the first time four classics dealing with the emotive issue of India's Partition the growth of the idea of Partition and its inevitability; the Partition and the subsequent upheaval; the creation of Pakistan; and the problems arising out of nationalism and decolonization.
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David Page is at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University. Moon Penderal is a former Civil Servant, Bahawalpur. Gopal Das Khosla served in the Indian Civil Service and retired as the Chief Justice of the Punjab High Court in 1961. Anita Inder Singh is at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford.
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the Indian ship began its slow but inexorable drift into muddy waters without a boatman. The captain, having safely steered many a ship through the rough currents in the past, saw nothing but fire and smoke around him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substantial elected element, rupees land revenue, agriculturalist party, mob assisted, foot convoy, maximum provincial autonomy, communal majority, cabinet delegation, incoming refugees, joint electorates, jail camp, ginning factories, separate electorates, residuary powers, council entry, military lorries, minority provinces, communal electorates, divide and quit, franchise proposals, communal antagonism, cabinet mission, khilafat movement, urban seats, refugee train Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fazli Husain, Secretary of State, Deputy Commissioner, New Delhi, Prime Minister, United Provinces, National Guards, Mahommed Ali, Bahawalpur State, North-West Frontier Province, Rahim Yar Khan, Baldev Singh, Motilal Nehru, British India, Punjabi Muslims, Lajpat Rai, Lord Mountbatten, Central Provinces, Shafi Daudi, Aga Khan, Hindu Mahasabha, Firoz Khan Noon, Superintendent of Police, Chief Secretary, Eastern Times New!
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the Indian ship began its slow but inexorable drift into muddy waters without a boatman. The captain, having safely steered many a ship through the rough currents in the past, saw nothing but fire and smoke around him. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substantial elected element, rupees land revenue, agriculturalist party, mob assisted, foot convoy, maximum provincial autonomy, communal majority, cabinet delegation, incoming refugees, joint electorates, jail camp, ginning factories, separate electorates, residuary powers, council entry, military lorries, minority provinces, communal electorates, divide and quit, franchise proposals, communal antagonism, cabinet mission, khilafat movement, urban seats, refugee train Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fazli Husain, Secretary of State, Deputy Commissioner, New Delhi, Prime Minister, United Provinces, National Guards, Mahommed Ali, Bahawalpur State, North-West Frontier Province, Rahim Yar Khan, Baldev Singh, Motilal Nehru, British India, Punjabi Muslims, Lajpat Rai, Lord Mountbatten, Central Provinces, Shafi Daudi, Aga Khan, Hindu Mahasabha, Firoz Khan Noon, Superintendent of Police, Chief Secretary, Eastern Times New!
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- Prelude to Partition: The Indian Muslims and the Imperial System of Control, 1920-1932 by David Page on 8 pages
- Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947 (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Farzana Shaikh on 4 pages
- The Muslims of British India (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Hardy on 4 pages
- A Bunch of Old Letters by Jawaharlal Nehru on 4 pages
- India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History) by Mushirul Hasan on 4 pages
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