[PDF / Epub] ☉ Midnights Furies 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.
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 indepen
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 historica
One of the greatest tragedies to ever occur in the history of the 20th century was the partition of India following the end of British rule of the subcontinent not just because a once large country was split in two, but because of the communal slaughter of Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus that occurred as
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, a
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 beco
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 b
Loved the book Five stars primarily because it s so hard to find even handed historical summaries of events in modern India I d naturally read about the Partition before most recently with Indian Summer, another fantastic book , but this book brought out many nuances I d glossed over in the past Three things I found interesting 1 It r
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 det...
Well, that was depressing, but it does shed light on things.
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