Midnight's furies

About this book

Describes how a cycle of rioting and violence leading up to the partition of India and birth of Pakistan resulted in brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing on both sides of the border, creating a divide between India and Pakistan that persists decades later.

Subjects

• history
• india, history, 20th century
• india-pakistan conflict, 1947-1949
• india-pakistan conflict (1947-1949) fast (ocolc)fst00968996
• india-pakistan conflict (1947-1949) fast (ocolc)fst00968996 (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subj
• india-pakistan conflict, 1965
• jinnah, mohamed ali, 1876-1948
• nehru, jawaharlal, 1889-1964
• new york times reviewed
• pakistan, history
• partition of india (1947) fast (ocolc)fst01353944
• partition of india (1947) fast (ocolc)fst01353944 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01353944