[PDF / Epub] ☉ Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition By Nisid Hajari – Lesmeubles.info
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 Prot G 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 Furiesexplains All Too Many Of The Headlines We Read Today.
What is the main reason for the continuing animosity between India and Pakistan Why can t they just get along Nisid presents the main reasons for the distrust between the two governments which sadly is still pretty much the same after 70 odd years since their creation Both founding fathers, Nehru and Jinnah almost completely distrusted each other and did their utmost to
I had mixed feelings about this work My biggest complaint is that it seemed based to large degree on secondary sourcesso than I d hoped and the preface seemed to suggest , and as such it didn t seem to cover as much new ground as one would hope for an already thoroughly documented historical event On the other hand the narrative itself is really gripping and well written The book
The book begins with up close and personal stories on the 3 leaders Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohandas Ghandi and Mohammad Ali Jinnah This warm and engaging part is followed by the politics and violence of the independence movement followed by the politics and violence of achieving independence The book Indian Summer tells this story with emphasis on the British role, this book focuses on the rol
June 2020 Having just read through this book again, I find myself agreeing with what I said almost five years ago This book is perhaps the definitive book on India s partition, the murderous devastation it left in its wake, and how those wounds continue to fester Yet, so much has changed in the last five years that I come to this book with new questions While Kashmir is still one of the biggest po
True Wonderer3.5 5 Stars, Death Destruction Disaster If India wants her bloodbath, she shall have it Mahatma Gandhi to Archibald Wavell, 27th Aug, 1946It is ironical that the one time, the messiah of peace non violence uttered words of carnage, they turned out to be prophetic beyond belief Partition the word has become a synonym for meaningless disaster to Indians, and probably for the Pakistani people as
I learned in high school that British India was partitioned in 1947 between India and Pakistan , and that this process went badly I didn t knowthan that Thanks to this book, now I feel like I have much better understanding what happened and why I also feel like I have a much better sense why Pakistan is screwed up in the ways that it is.At least in this account, it s a Frankenstein or Sorcerer s Apprentice story Ji
A History of the Violence at the Separation of India and PakistanAfter WWII, the British felt pressured to give India independence However, the Muslim forces in the north of India, led by Jinnah, a lawyer, wanted to control their own destiny Jinnah would settle for nothing less than an independent country, and Pakistan was born However, creating two separate countries was not simple Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs lived on both
This is by far the best and the most comprehensive account of one of the darkest periods of Indian history The gruesomeness of the event and the helplessness of our leaders to mitigate the pogrom that ensued during Independence is honestly delineated with telling detail All the players including the British grossly underestimated the impact of Partition Must read for anyone interested in understanding the human psyche.
This book is pretty amazing For all the distress and agony you go through while reading it, the insight you get is totally worth it Well framed, directed and revelatory I will recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand Partition 1947.
It s not for beginners Although I know a bit about India, Pakistan and the wider region due to reading up on the news, having Indian Pakistani friends, etc I thought this might be a great book to help me understand the history a bit better I had read and seen a couple of interviews with the author where he talks a bit about both history and the current events and it sounded really fascinating Unfortunately, I felt this was a really tough read While I