Pathway To Indias Partition The March To Pakistan 1937 1947

Author : Bimal Prasad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788173042508
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathway to India's Partition: The march to Pakistan, 1937-1947 written by Bimal Prasad and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work in three volumes represents the first thorough and dispassionate study of the background of India`s partition.The basic premise of the author is that the emergence of Pakistan was neither the result of a fluke nor of false consciousness, but of the working of powerful historical and social forces.The author examines in depth the historical and socio-political foundations of Muslim nationalism and its evolution and gives a fresh look to the events between 1937 and 1947, the complex realities at various stages and the roles of the key decision makers. This pioneering work is the result of more than a quarter century`s research by the author.

Author : Bimal Prasad
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation Within a Nation, 1877-1937 written by Bimal Prasad and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to analyse the evolution of Muslim nationalism from 1877 to 1937. This exercise has resulted in highlighting certain trends which have been so far either ignored or underplayed, at any rate in India. It, for instance, shows that two nation theory was an old as the movement for Muslim awakening and solidarity and almost all its leaders firmly believed in it. Similarly the idea of Pakistan, instead of being born in 1933 with Rehmat Ali's forceful espousal of it, is shown to be steadily circulating, particularly in the Punjab, since mid- 1920s. Again, contrary to what has been generally imagined so far, Jinnah as well as Iqbal had become converts to that idea, as early as June 1937, before even the beginning of any serious talk for the installation of a so-called coalition government in U.P., and not after its failure. On the other hand, the volume also reveals the strength of the growing sentiment of Hindu nationalism in 1920s, particularly in the Punjab and Bengal. The situation created by the juxtaposition of the two nationalisms is underlined by Lala Lajpat Rai's declaration in 1924 that in view of the general Muslim attitude a divided India might provide the only solution to the communal problem. Equally significant was Gandhi's repeated assertion in 1924-5 that he saw no solution of that problem except through prayer.

Author : Bimal Prasad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pathway to India's Partition written by Bimal Prasad and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Islamic nationalism in India.

Author : Cyril Henry Philips
Publisher : Cambridge : M.I.T. Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Partition of India written by Cyril Henry Philips and published by Cambridge : M.I.T. Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult, even more than twenty years after partition, for those Britons, Indians, and Pakistanis who lived through those terrible months in 1947 to look back on them with detachment. But it may reasonably be presumed that those who played some significant part in the episode or who saw what went on have at least some responsibility for setting down their evidence, so that future generations may achieve a closer understanding of the processes which have dramatically changed the history of their three peoples and countries. The publication of this volume is a culmination of an attempt to collect evidence from those still alive who had taken an active hand in the partition and who had thus far not set down their share of the record. From this it grew into a regular series of meetings spread over three years between "participants" and historians, young and old, of the three countries. A valuable body of evidence and comment was thus brought together in London, and much of it is presented in this book. The papers included here fall into two categories, corresponding broadly with two main groups of contributors: on the one hand academic students of the partition and on the other hand actors in, or interested observers of, the events themselves. Thus the papers in the section Policies and Parties,relating first to British policy and then to the policies of the major Indian parties, are largely based on the study of the documentary record, while those in the section Perspectives and Reflectionsderive from personal experience and observations of Pakistani, Indian, and British contributors. As the papers show, the interpretation of events tends to vary with the preconceptions and present-day outlook of the contributors to the debate. A view widely held in India, for example, is that partition was a tragedy—a vivisection—and discussion in that country therefore tends to be concerned with discovering the reasons and apportioning the blame for this failure to maintain the unity of the subcontinent. In Pakistan, on the other hand, where naturally it cannot be accepted that partition should have been avoided, there is a tendency to project the growth of Muslim nationalism into the depths of history in order to justify the seeming inevitability of the establishment of a Muslim state. Among British writers there is of course some difference in outlook between generations, and within the generations between historians and those who actually served in India. Those brought up in the age of empire and concerned with the administration of that empire tend to differ from those of their contemporaries who were more influenced by the political climate of the thirties at home in England. The range of contributors includes, among others, B. Shiva Rao, C. S. Venkatachar, K. N. Chaudhuri, S. R. Mehrotra, B. R. Nanda, Mumtaz Hasan, Raja of Mahmudabad, Abdul Qaiyum Khan, Sir Francis Wylie, Lord Sorensen, and Percival Spear.

Author : Anders Bjørn Hansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Partition and Genocide written by Anders Bjørn Hansen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anita Inder Singh
Publisher : Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of the Partition of India, 1936-1947 written by Anita Inder Singh and published by Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's transfer of power to India and Pakistan in August of 1947 was a cataclysmic event in modern history. Anita Inder Singh shows that although long-term strategic interests of Britain were against partition, short-term tactics encouraged this major act of decolonization.

Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300233647
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Partition written by Yasmin Khan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Vapal Pangunni Menon
Publisher : London, Green
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transfer of Power in India written by Vapal Pangunni Menon and published by London, Green. This book was released on 1957 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes events in India from September 1939 to August 1947.

Author : Howard Brenton
Publisher : NHB Modern Plays
ISBN 13 : 9781848423725
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing the Line written by Howard Brenton and published by NHB Modern Plays. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid telling of the chaotic story of the partition that shaped the modern world. London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task. Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged - untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy's wife... As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people. Drawing the Line premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London in December 2013. "Powerful... a fascinating play which views colonial culpability from an unexpected and singularly revealing angle." - Independent "Brenton is a masterly storyteller... the play expertly draws you into the maelstrom." - Financial Times "Brenton knows how to make history manifest... gives a vivid picture of the pressures of the time." - Guardian "Fleet and fascinating." - WhatsOnStage "Crisp, elegant and revelatory... a fascinating story of mixed intentions and rushed folly." - The Stage Howard Brenton is a prolific playwright whose plays have been staged at the Royal Court Theatre, National Theatre, RSC and Shakespeare's Globe among others. Other writing work includes collaborations with David Hare and thirteen episodes of the BBC1 drama series Spooks.

Author : Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107052122
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a New Medina written by Venkat Dhulipala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.