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Partition Books
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Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as partition)
avg rating 3.94 — 32,867 ratings — published 1956
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as partition)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,029 ratings — published 1998
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,097 ratings — published 1988
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,644 ratings — published 2007
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,930 ratings — published 2018
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as partition)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,716 ratings — published 1981
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as partition)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,019 ratings — published 2007
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as partition)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,247 ratings — published 2015
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as partition)
avg rating 4.17 — 149 ratings — published 1998
The Book of Everlasting Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,873 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,162 ratings — published 1988
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,445 ratings — published 1975
The Night Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,178 ratings — published 2018
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories (Cultures of History)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 4.01 — 113 ratings — published 2007
What the Body Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,019 ratings — published 1999
Pakistan or Partition of India
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 773 ratings — published 1940
This Is Not That Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.51 — 89 ratings — published 2010
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.47 — 520 ratings — published 2019
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पिंजर [Pinjar] (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,715 ratings — published 1950
The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.39 — 122 ratings — published 2011
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.01 — 308 ratings — published 2006
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.32 — 919 ratings — published 1997
Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,379 ratings — published 2023
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work Across the India-Pakistan Divide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.87 — 199 ratings — published 2013
Aangan / آنگن (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,372 ratings — published
Partitions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.00 — 995 ratings — published 2011
Sunlight on a Broken Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,120 ratings — published 1961
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,317 ratings — published 1980
No Woman's Land: Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the Partition India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2004
The Sixth River: A Journal from the Partition of India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.28 — 75 ratings — published
Toba Tek Singh: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,138 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the Ganges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.02 — 213 ratings — published 1964
Stories About the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 1994
Tomb of Sand (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,146 ratings — published 2018
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.66 — 164 ratings — published 2022
River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,079 ratings — published 1959
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.96 — 96 ratings — published 2000
Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.06 — 213 ratings — published 2015
Partition: The Long Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.08 — 25 ratings — published 2014
Manto: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,194 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 803 ratings — published 1988
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.74 — 967 ratings — published 2009
This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.81 — 72 ratings — published 2013
Memories of Madness: Stories in 1947 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.76 — 50 ratings — published 2003
The Parted Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,068 ratings — published 2021
A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.92 — 412 ratings — published
“The events leading up to the creation of Pakistan also made the path to statehood very difficult: more than a decade of civil unrest as Indians of all races and creeds sought independence from Great Britain was followed by a massive migration involving some fourteen million refugees who crossed what became the Pakistan-India border. Nearly one million persons—Hindus, Sikhs, and Muslims—died during this bloody upheaval.”
― Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within
― Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within
“In my 12th / Intermediate Level in Ravenshaw College, I read the novel "Train to Pakistan" by the great writer Khushwant Singh. I read the struggles and sadness of the people from both sides of the border in the partition that happened in 1947.
I am poet, and I only believe in love and peace. We the homo sapiens are capable of great things, but let us not get narrow minded and hate each other. Our world needs more loving hearts.”
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I am poet, and I only believe in love and peace. We the homo sapiens are capable of great things, but let us not get narrow minded and hate each other. Our world needs more loving hearts.”
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