Full name: Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

Author: Nisid Hajari Year: 2015 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780547669243 9780544705395 0547669240 0544705394

Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody -- it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi's protege and the political leader of India, believed Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand. But in August 1946, exactly a year before Independence, Calcutta erupted in riots. A cycle of street-fighting -- targeting Hindus, then Muslims, then Sikhs -- spun out of control. As the summer of 1947 approached, all three groups were heavily armed and on edge, and the British rushed to leave. Hell let loose. Trains carried Muslims west and Hindus east to their slaughter. Some of the most brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing in modern history erupted on both sides of the new border, searing a divide between India and Pakistan that remains a root cause of many evils. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, the searing tale told in Midnight's Furies explains all too many of the headlines we read today. Similar books: Shameful Flight by Stanley Wolpert Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins India After Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru The Great Moghuls by Bamber Gascoigne Early India by Romila Thapar Empires of the Indus by Alice Albinia A New History of India by Stanley Wolpert India by John Keay The Ruling Caste by David Gilmour The Mughal Throne by Abraham Eraly India and the Mughal Dynasty by Valerie Berinstain The Story of India by Michael Wood Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin One Nation by Ben Carson