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Loading... Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partitionby Nisid Hajari
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A solid narrative history, which helped me understand partition, and the mess that it caused. The first half of the book is the more interesting, the second half mostly depressing, as mobs hack each other to pieces and the 'leaders' of the various parties and nations do... nothing. So it's a bit of a let-down; the build up to partition is fascinating; the actual process of partition is mostly mindless violence, which is hard to make interesting, I'm sure. Special bonus star for learning that Winston Churchill, yet again, managed to stick his nose into a situation he did not understand, that did not involve him, and that he could do nothing but make worse, and, naturally, did precisely that. Churchill is the twentieth century: a thin, peeling veneer of heroism stuck to stupidity, rot, and fetor. no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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not an easy topic to read about (wave after wave of unimaginable, senseless violence) but it seems like one of those significant periods of history that I should probably try to learn more about/learn from it. ( )