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The Partition of India in 1947 was one of the most horrific events of decolonization in the twentieth century. The geographical divide brought displacement and death, rape and plunder, benefiting the few at the expense of the very many. In The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan exposes the widespread obliviousness to what Partition would entail in practice as well as the haste and recklessness with which it was completed. Moreover, she powerfully underscores the catastrophic human cost and shows why the repercussions of Partition resound even now, some sixty years later. Drawing on fresh information from an array of sources, Khan provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of Partition, and the damaging legacy left in its wake.
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15 septembre 2013

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YASMIN KHAN


The GREAT PARTITION
THE MAKING OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN
Contents
About the Author
More Praise for the Book
Dedication
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Glossary
Timeline of Major Events, 1945-1950
Illustrations
Maps
Introduction: The Plan
1 In the Shadow of War
2 Changing Regime
3 The Unravelling Raj
4 The Collapse of Trust
5 From Breakdown to Breakdown
6 Untangling Two Nations
7 Blood on the Tracks
8 Leprous Daybreak
9 Bitter Legacies
10 Divided Families
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
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Copyright
PENGUIN BOOKS
THE GREAT PARTITION
Yasmin Khan was born in London. She is a University Lecturer in British history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. The Great Partition is her first book. It has won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society and been translated into Hindi and Urdu.
More Praise for the Book
Mahatma Gandhi called the traumatic experience of Partition the vivisection of India . In this book, Yasmin Khan shows how this operation was performed. She describes the suffering of the victims with great sensitivity, and traces the perceptions of contemporary observers, most of whom were at a loss when trying to imagine the contours of the new states. To a country that took its territorial unity for granted, the partition of India came as a rude shock; its impact reverberates through the pages of this illuminating book.
-Dietmar Rothermund, professor emeritus of South Asian History, Heidelberg University
This is a compassionate and devastating book. It charts the long, complex and often brutal processes that engulfed millions of unsuspecting people in chaos. Few among the South Asian and British political elite could have imagined what they were letting loose, while many of those swept up even tangentially had no clear idea of what it might mean. Its long aftermath still scars the subcontinent, as India and Pakistan see each other through the lens of carefully constructed nationalist history which feeds on the partially understood history of Partition. This is a book for all who wish to understand attitudes on the subcontinent today.
-Judith M. Brown, Balliol College, Oxford, and author of Nehru
Yasmin Khan makes a significant contribution to the ongoing study of the Partition of India in this lucid account. Her eye for detail strongly evokes the issues, personalities and events at this crucial moment in the subcontinent s modern history. Narrative and sharp analysis go hand in hand in a work which bears all the hallmarks of a first-rate scholar.
-Ian Talbot, University of Southampton
Yasmin Khan s The Great Partition vividly and memorably portrays the sheer turmoil of decolonisation. In turning the spotlight away from high-level politics to bitter personal experience, she exposes the bewilderment, brutality and mayhem that followed the hasty British decision to divide and quit . This book will be a touchstone in the retelling of one of the twentieth century s greatest calamities.
-David Arnold, University of Warwick, and Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Asiatic Society
This is an exceptional book. Yasmin Khan has written a vivid, authoritative and accessible account of one of the greatest human tragedies and dislocations of the modern era. Her particular achievement is in weaving the lived experience of Partition-the agony, the uncertainty, the conflicting identities and loyalties- into a broader account of the turmoil and confusion which so gravely soured India s and Pakistan s achievement of independence.
-Andrew Whitehead, editor of History Workshop Journal , and former BBC South Asia correspondent
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, presenter, BBC Newshour
Yasmin Khan, a British historian, has written a riveting book on this terrible story. It is unusual for two reasons. It is composed with flair, quite unlike the dense, academic plodding that modern Indian history usually delivers. Second, it turns the spotlight away from the self-posturing in the British viceroy s palace and the well-documented political wrangling between Congress and the Muslim League leaders. Instead, it focuses on a broader canvas that leads the reader through the confusion, the uncertainties, the fear and eventually the horror faced by those who were soon to become citizens of the two new states, India and Pakistan.
- Economist
Intelligent and empathetic . . . Most historians like to apportion blame among the leading players, British and Indian, for the disaster that occurred. Yasmin Khan is not interested in doing so. Nor does she give time to the simplistic and oft-repeated theory that partition was the result of Britain s alleged policy of divide and rule . The author s main interest is in the experience of partition, how people thought of it and how it affected them.
-David Gilmour, Literary Review
Until now, writes Yasmin Khan in The Great Partition , historians have tended either to trace the suffering of the victims on their epic journeys, or to concentrate on political intrigue in New Delhi. But Khan s important new book marries these two approaches, showing the relationship between the human and the political.
-Susan Williams, BBC History Magazine
Rather than dwelling on New Delhi s political intrigue, [Khan s] insightful book focuses on the oft-ignored social undercurrents that contributed to the mass violence.
-Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times
An elegant, scholarly analysis of the chaotic severing of two Pakistans (now Pakistan and Bangladesh) from India in 1947. Khan s book is splendidly researched, and she has an eye for illuminating details of how Partition affected everyday lives.
-Alex von Tunzelmann, Daily Telegraph
After independence, refugees made up almost half the population of Lahore, and almost a third of Delhi. Many were badly traumatised; some went mad. One of Khan s many achievements in this powerful book is to link this terrible suffering to the blueprint for Partition, loftily imposed from above . She seethes with anger at the British manner of leaving the sub-continent, rushed and inadequately thought out . She condemns the decision to send British troops home and to shift responsibility for peace-keeping to the nascent governments, before they had even begun to function.
-Susan Williams, Independent
Khan s angry, unsparing analysis of catastrophe is provocative and painful. - The Times
Khan eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . Drawing from varied historical literature and archival sources, the author has obviously provided a new look at this still important subject. Strongly recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
- Library Journal
This is a gripping and readable book that the reviewer would recommend for any course dealing with the Indian freedom movement, independence, partition, and the bitter legacy of those traumatic times.
-Gail Minault, historian
Yasmin Khan s excellent book The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan attempts to . . . unlace the great ambiguities that characterized the years immediately before and after independence. Ms Khan succeeds admirably. She is adept at laying small, human-sized stories side by side in parallel tracks, and her thesis steams along cleanly as a result.
- New York Sun
This is probably the best book going on the partition of the British Indian Empire. It provides an incisive analysis of the endgame of the empire between 1945 and 1947. One of the strengths of the book is that it clearly maps the collapse of British authority, something that most accounts miss. This should be essential reading for all socialists, as the conflicts which produced the partition were never solved , and remain with us today.
- Socialist Review
For Javed Khan, in memory
list of Illustrations
1 . Communist delegates marching during the Punjab Provincial Delegates Conference, 1945 Sunil Janah, 1945, 2007. From the web archive at members.aol.com/sjanah (email: sjanah@aol.com ).
2 . Royal Indian Navy mutineers, Bombay, 1946 Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
3 . Muslim League leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah holding a press conference, Bombay, January 1946. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images.
4 . People in Bombay lining up to vote in the general elections, 1946 Sunil Janah, 1946, 2007 ( sjanah@aol.com , members.aol.com/sjanah ).
5 . A co-educational zoology class at Aligarh Muslim University, May 1946. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images.
6 . Lord Pethick-Lawrence, member of the British Cabinet Mission delegation, looking over papers, 1946 NMML.
7 . A peace procession after the riots in Calcutta, 1946 Sunil Janah, 1946, 2007 ( sjanah@aol.com , members.aol.com/sjanah ).
8 . Villagers in boats fleeing under cover of darkness from their burning villages during riots in Noakhali, an eastern district of undivided Bengal, 1946-7 Sunil Janah, 1947, 2007 ( sjanah@aol.com , members.aol.com/sjanah ).
9 . Crowds look on during Gandhi s visit to encourage Hindu-Muslim unity in Noakhali NMML.
10 . Muslims and Hindus attempt to promote peace by jointly flying the flags of the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress, Calcutta, 1946 Sunil Janah, 1946, 2007 ( sjanah@aol.com , members.aol.com/sjanah ).
11 . Nehru and Gandhi with refugees from West Pakistan at Haridwar, India, 1947 NMML.
12 . Nehru votes for Partition at the Congress Working Committee Meeting, 1947 NMML.
13 . Meeting of the Indian leaders with Mountbatten at which the plan to partition the subcontinent was agreed, Delhi, 2 June 1947 NMML.
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