Partition - The Human Cost
Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.
Mushirul Hasan looks at the reflection of the trauma and tragedy of partition through literature and personal histories.
Francis Robinson considers what the Muslims wanted - and what they got - out of the decision to divide the subcontinent on religious lines.
Jean Alphonse Bernard considers the two key provinces and how they became touchstones and then powderkegs in the nationalist aspirations of both sides.
Partha Mitter looks at how tensions and cultural interchange between Indians and Britons are conveyed in the imagery of the colonial period.
Judith Brown assesses the curious coupling of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that achieved much – but not all – for Hindu aspirations.
John McLeod presents a study from the last days of the Raj of an Indian ruler who defied the stereotype of princely extravagance and self-indulgence.
Peter Heehs looks at the Indian army who threw in their lot against the Raj and with the Japanese in the Second World War.
Akbar Ahmed looks at the passion and theology behind the great monument to love.
Edward Norman on the Eastern promise of Western sainthood to be encountered in the Church of the Bom Jesus in Goa.
Peter Heehs describes how Hindu revivalism stiffened resistance to colonial rule in British India.