Ishtiaq Ahmed

The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed : Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy Through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts Ishtiaq Ahmed - Karachi Oxford University Press 2014 - xlviii,592 Pages 15x23 cm PB

Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy Through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts.

Include Bibliography and Index.

This is a month-by-month account of what happened in 1947 when the Punjab was partitioned as a consequence of the partition of India. Some 10 million Punjabis were forced to flee from their homes; 500,000 to 800,000 were killed. The story is told with the help of secret British reports and accounts of survivors and witnesses.

9780199400287


India--Punjab
India
Partition of India (1947)

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