Volume 47 Issue 9 September 1997

Jungle Book Memories

Paul Murphy on the Raj pioneers who set in train thoughts of conservation in independent India.

Partition - The Human Cost

Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.

South Asians in Britain

Coming home to mother? Bhikhu Parekh on the impact the subcontinent’s peoples have had (and continue to have) in Britain itself.

The Muslims and Partition

Francis Robinson considers what the Muslims wanted - and what they got - out of the decision to divide the subcontinent on religious lines.