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Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as partition)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,201 ratings — published 1956
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as partition)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,047 ratings — published 1998
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,662 ratings — published 2007
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,117 ratings — published 1988
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as partition)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,967 ratings — published 2018
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as partition)
avg rating 3.97 — 136,395 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 — 5,044 ratings — published 2007
The Book of Everlasting Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,980 ratings — published 2022
The Shadow Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,214 ratings — published 1988
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 4.18 — 151 ratings — published 1998
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as partition)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,262 ratings — published 2015
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,512 ratings — published 1975
The Night Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,296 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 — 114 ratings — published 2007
What the Body Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,035 ratings — published 1999
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.33 — 933 ratings — published 1997
Pakistan or Partition of India
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 784 ratings — published 1940
This Is Not That Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.51 — 89 ratings — published 2010
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पिंजर [Pinjar] (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,748 ratings — published 1950
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.48 — 527 ratings — published 2019
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
Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,671 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 3.88 — 200 ratings — published 2013
Aangan / آنگن (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,398 ratings — published
Partitions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.00 — 999 ratings — published 2011
Sunlight on a Broken Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,131 ratings — published 1961
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,348 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 — 2,154 ratings — published 2008
Partition: The Long Shadow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.08 — 25 ratings — published 2014
A Bend in the Ganges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.03 — 215 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 — 4,204 ratings — published 2018
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.66 — 166 ratings — published 2022
River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,086 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 — 214 ratings — published 2015
Manto: Selected Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,213 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 809 ratings — published 1988
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.75 — 968 ratings — published 2009
This Side, That Side: Restorying Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.82 — 73 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 3.95 — 2,082 ratings — published 2021
A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.93 — 415 ratings — published
“A deep sigh coursed through the gathering. Master Fazal said, 'History will keep on marching like this. The names of a few people will stick to her fabric. She will register those. there was Hitler, there was Mussolini, Churchill and Joseph Stalin, among others. this time the names maybe Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Jinnah, Subhash Bose! But the names of the lakhs and crores who have lost their lives will be nowhere. They will be mere numbers in which all of us will be included!”
― Two
― Two
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Jinnah of Pakistan
― Jinnah of Pakistan
