The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
By Yasmin Khan
The partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political freedom and a future free of religious strife. Instead, the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the expense of the very many, exposing huge numbers of the population to devastating consequences. Thousands of women were raped, at least one million people were killed and ten to fifteen times that number forced to leave their homes as refugees. It was among the first, most significant and bloodiest events of decolonization in the twentieth century.
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