Gazing at Neighbours : Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
9360458988
ISBN-13
9789360458980
Publisher
Westland Publications Limited
Imprint
Westland Publications Limited
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2024
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
256 grams
Dimensions
13.20 x 20.10 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyPolitical control & freedoms
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Enough and more has been written about the horrors of Partition, but what of the people who actually inhabit the land through which these lines run?
In July 1947, British barrister Cyril Radcliffe was summoned to New Delhi and given five weeks to draw, on the map of the subcontinent, two zigzagged lines that would decide the future of one-fifth of the human race. One line, 553 kilometres long, created the province of West Punjab; the other, adding up to 4,096 kilometres, carved out a province called East Bengal. Both territories joined the newborn nation of Pakistan—an event called the Partition of India, which saw one million people being butchered and another fifteen million uprooted from their homes.
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