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Partition Books
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Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as partition)
avg rating 3.94 — 32,598 ratings — published 1956
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as partition)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,020 ratings — published 1998
Cracking India (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.85 — 6,082 ratings — published 1988
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as partition)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,632 ratings — published 2007
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,913 ratings — published 2018
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as partition)
avg rating 3.97 — 134,939 ratings — published 1981
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as partition)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,984 ratings — published 2007
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as partition)
avg rating 4.17 — 147 ratings — published 1998
The Book of Everlasting Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,780 ratings — published 2022
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,236 ratings — published 2015
The Shadow Lines (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,110 ratings — published 1988
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as partition)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,384 ratings — published 1975
The Night Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 4.21 — 21,025 ratings — published 2018
Basti (New York Review Books Classics)
by (shelved 13 times as partition)
avg rating 3.70 — 783 ratings — published 1979
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 — 3,013 ratings — published 1999
Pakistan or Partition of India
by (shelved 11 times as partition)
avg rating 4.43 — 766 ratings — published 1940
This Is Not That Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as partition)
avg rating 4.50 — 88 ratings — published 2010
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.47 — 515 ratings — published 2019
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पिंजर [Pinjar] (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,685 ratings — published 1950
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.01 — 306 ratings — published 2006
Mottled Dawn: Fifty Sketches and Stories of Partition (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as partition)
avg rating 4.32 — 911 ratings — published 1997
Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.11 — 13,110 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 — 198 ratings — published 2013
Aangan / آنگن (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,359 ratings — published
The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.39 — 121 ratings — published 2011
Partitions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 4.00 — 994 ratings — published 2011
Sunlight on a Broken Column (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,119 ratings — published 1961
Clear Light of Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as partition)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,270 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 — 2,125 ratings — published 2008
A Bend in the Ganges (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.01 — 211 ratings — published 1964
Stories About the Partition of India (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 25 ratings — published 1994
In the Language of Remembering: The Inheritance of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.65 — 162 ratings — published 2022
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 — 2,176 ratings — published 2003
Kingdom's End: Selected Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 4.20 — 794 ratings — published 1988
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as partition)
avg rating 3.74 — 963 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
Tomb of Sand (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,101 ratings — published 2018
The Parted Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,052 ratings — published 2021
A Time of Madness: A Memoir of Partition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 3.93 — 410 ratings — published
River of Fire (Aag Ka Darya)
by (shelved 5 times as partition)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,070 ratings — published 1959
“Partition tore India into three pieces. Disaster struck. There was East Pakistan, there was West Pakistan, and there was the rest of India. Millions of people were uprooted from their houses, tens of thousands massacred on both sides. It was one of the greatest mass migrations and killings in human history. People today do not realize the tremendous trauma of Partition, whose negative vibrations continue to haunt us even today.”
― An Examined Life: Essays and Reflections by Karan Singh
― An Examined Life: Essays and Reflections by Karan Singh
“PARTITION'
are your drains clean of blood now?
do you recall the names, and faces
of your own people?
did your countrymen get to die
right like human beings?
butchered sisters and mothers
still wait by the windows,
with no lantern.
that was no proper farewell
past midnight.
minarets whisper your ghazals
to an empty sky,
Koklass’ know the borders too.
what have you done, sir?”
― Dying With A Little Patience: Poems
are your drains clean of blood now?
do you recall the names, and faces
of your own people?
did your countrymen get to die
right like human beings?
butchered sisters and mothers
still wait by the windows,
with no lantern.
that was no proper farewell
past midnight.
minarets whisper your ghazals
to an empty sky,
Koklass’ know the borders too.
what have you done, sir?”
― Dying With A Little Patience: Poems
