The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan by Dilip Hiro

The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

Dilip Hiro

528 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million f...

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