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S'està carregant… Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partitionde Nisid Hajari
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A solid narrative history, which helped me understand partition, and the mess that it caused. The first half of the book is the more interesting, the second half mostly depressing, as mobs hack each other to pieces and the 'leaders' of the various parties and nations do... nothing. So it's a bit of a let-down; the build up to partition is fascinating; the actual process of partition is mostly mindless violence, which is hard to make interesting, I'm sure. Special bonus star for learning that Winston Churchill, yet again, managed to stick his nose into a situation he did not understand, that did not involve him, and that he could do nothing but make worse, and, naturally, did precisely that. Churchill is the twentieth century: a thin, peeling veneer of heroism stuck to stupidity, rot, and fetor. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Describes how a cycle of rioting and violence leading up to the partition of India and birth of Pakistan resulted in brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing on both sides of the border, creating a divide between India and Pakistan that persists decades later. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)954.04History and Geography Asia India and South Asia 1947–1971LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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not an easy topic to read about (wave after wave of unimaginable, senseless violence) but it seems like one of those significant periods of history that I should probably try to learn more about/learn from it. ( )