Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
Nisid Hajari
ISBN 10: 0547669216 ISBN 13: 9780547669212
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
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Named one of the best books of 2015 by NPR, Amazon, Seattle Times, and Shelf Awareness
A few bloody months in South Asia during the summer of 1947 explain the world that troubles us today.
Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody — it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s protégé and the political leader of India, believed Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand. But in August 1946, exactly a year before Independence, Calcutta erupted in street-gang fighting. A cycle of riots — targeting Hindus, then Muslims, then Sikhs — spiraled out of control. As the summer of 1947 approached, all three groups were heavily armed and on edge, and the British rushed to leave. Hell let loose. Trains carried Muslims west and Hindus east to their slaughter. Some of the most brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing in modern history erupted on both sides of the new border, searing a divide between India and Pakistan that remains a root cause of many evils. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, the searing tale told in Midnight’s Furies explains all too many of the headlines we read today.
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Nisid Hajari is the Asia editor for Bloomberg View. Before that, he spent a decade at Newsweek as Asia editor, foreign editor, and, eventually, coeditor at the top of the masthead. He has appeared frequently as a foreign affairs commentator on NPR, NBC, and CNN and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Singapore.
The Partition of British-ruled India in 1947 was a momentous event in world history, which has impacted the war on terror as well as the politics and economy of Asia to a degree that is still not fully understood. Nisid Hajari s book illuminates it with a rare political acuity, narrative verve and stylistic elegance . . . Anyone wondering how nuclear-armed South Asia came to be vulnerable to religious extremism will find clear and profound answers here. Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire
Nisid Hajari is the Asia editor for Bloomberg View. Before that, he spent a decade at Newsweek as Asia editor, foreign editor, and, eventually, coeditor at the top of the masthead. He has appeared frequently as a foreign affairs commentator on NPR, NBC, and CNN and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He lives in Singapore.
The Partition of British-ruled India in 1947 was a momentous event in world history, which has impacted the war on terror as well as the politics and economy of Asia to a degree that is still not fully understood. Nisid Hajari s book illuminates it with a rare political acuity, narrative verve and stylistic elegance . . . Anyone wondering how nuclear-armed South Asia came to be vulnerable to religious extremism will find clear and profound answers here. Pankaj Mishra, author of From the Ruins of Empire
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Titel: Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of ...
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
Einband: Hardcover
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