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

Apr 1, 2014 - Tension between India and Pakistan over Pashtun nationalism stems from the partition of the two countries in 1947, when some Pashtuns refused to accept the newly created country of Pakistan. May 12, 2014 - “The 1947 partition of British India, which led to the creation of India and Pakistan as independent countries, was undertaken with nobler motives. The Muslim When Jinnah died, he was seen as austere, inflexible and a man who had done great damage to India by his insistence on partition. First, their After the 1947 partition of British India into two – Pakistan and India, followed by the bloody outbreak between Hindus and Muslims some 10 million families were dispersed with members on either side of the divide; many have yet to be reunited. The dispute over the boundary remains unresolved, making Pakistan suspicious that Kabul, possibly with India's help, might reignite anti-Pakistan sentiment or Pashtun nationalism in the future. Stephen Fry's novel, Making History, is a good example of this. Sep 27, 2008 - The huge market and the complementarities of arbitrarily divided ecosystems could have yielded great benefits. The Nizam of Hyderabad was very adamant about They owned shops and were in business of sweet making (Halwai). Mar 7, 2012 - When Partition of India and Pakistan was announced, my grandfather was still very optimistic that Hyderabad will be declared an independent state. This was not an accident and we have referred a lot to the excellent book by Kamaljit Bhasin-Malik (In the Making: Identity Formation in South Asia) to explore this question. She nodded agreement and we were suddenly whisked away to a set where Abbot and Costello were making a film on the Foreign Legion. I am interested to contact elderly people in Laiya I am no product of the Partition, yet I feel the pain of the people of the great sub-continent division. Dec 24, 2010 - The Pakistani military, driven by its perception of India as the enemy and its perceived requirement for strategic depth, will not end its support for and provision of sanctuary to its longtime Afghan Taliban proxies or accept a truly independent emanating from Pakistan. Oct 11, 2013 - In August 1947 the British Empire, which had ruled the Indian subcontinent as part of the Raj since the mid-19th century, granted independence to the India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Historian Ayesha Jalal illustrates the tragedy of the subcontinent's partition through the life of her great-uncle, a well-known short story writer. Sep 16, 2013 - When India and Pakistan Split Apart. Apr 29, 2014 - The area's 213,000 Muslim voters (mostly Sindhi Muslims with strong roots in Pakistan) are reportedly supporting him in great numbers. Their attitude is more a function of India's mismanagement (and post-partition Pakistan's incitements) than of some innate hatred of Hindus. And it would allow the Obama administration to concentrate intensively on other important issues.