The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Yale University Press

Apr 21, 2013 - Themes in Indian History). Aug 14, 2013 - How often do we reminisce about the end of India's 189-year old subjugation by the British, and its subsequent partition into two sovereign nations followed by one of the greatest human tragedies and displacement of populations in recorded history? There are The father of the idea of 'Pakistan' was Sir Mohammad Iqbal who in 1930 declared that the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to be the final destiny of Muslims. Dec 20, 2007 - The erstwhile broad and overarching categories of the imperial school and its nationalist counterpart (both in India and Pakistan) were soon found wanting in properly explaining issues of class, community formation, ideological fissures and cultural separatism, along with the stark . The latter formed a majority in Sukkur but, with the AIML and Sufi saints making it into an Islamic issue, the agitation spread far and wide until eventually the judges gave a verdict in favour of the Muslims. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Nov 26, 2013 - What's is it like being a Muslim in India 66 years after the cataclysm of August 1947 that unleashed the 'Great Divide' in the South Asian subcontinent and spawned India and Pakistan? Though I have never visited India or Pakistan my deep roots are entrenched in Hindustan…the great Land before the Partition. Jul 26, 2007 - The unruly end of empire. Jul 19th 2007: The Economist An epic tragedy brought about by hubris, confused thinking and lack of planning. Mar 4, 2014 - I dont speak or write such ignorant and hateful comments against any religion and accept the viewpoint of the followers of that faith as the true representation of the religion , without filtering it through my mind and making an ill-informed and wrong idea about that religion which is miles away from what the followers believe and practice.