The Longest August

Innbundet • 2015 • Engelsk

The Longest August

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The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes,primarily in caravans of bullock-carts,to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in history. Sixty-seven years later, it is as if that August never ended.Renowned historian and journalist Dilip Hiro provides a rivet...Vis mer

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9781568587349

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Avalon Publishing Group

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2015

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Engelsk

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The Longest August

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