Description
The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed / Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts / Ishtiaq Ahmed / OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS / Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780199400287 / 978-0199400287
ISBN-10: 0199400288
Printed in Pakistan
Pages 299
Winner of two national Best Non-Fiction Book Prizes Karachi Literature Festival-Coca Cola Prize and UBL-Jang Group Literary Prize
The Partition of India in 1947 resulted in the biggest forced migration in history-some 14 million people altogether of which 10 million were from the Punjab. This book is a holistic study of the first major case of ethnic cleansing after the Second World War. Besides shedding new light on the events through secret British reports, it also contains poignant accounts by eyewitnesses, survivors, and even participators in the camage on both sides of the border.
With interviewees from both India and Pakistan, the book gives a balanced account of Partition and shows how religious differences are no bar to peaceful coexistence unless highlighted by divisive forces. This book will be of immense interest to anyone even remotely curious about the happenings of the most traumatic event in recent Indo-Pakistan history.
Born in Lahore on 24 February 1947, Ishtiaq Ahmed holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, at Stockholm University and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His research interests cover diverse fields like political Islam, ethnicity and nationalism, human, minority and group rights, and partition studies.
- Publisher: Oxford
- Publication date: 2014
- ISBN 10: 0199400288
- ISBN 13: 9780199400287
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 299
