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Author Hajari, Nisid, author.

Title Midnight's furies : the deadly legacy of India's partition / Nisid Hajari.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
©2015.
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  954.042 HAJ    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  954.042 HAJ    AVAILABLE
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Description xxii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-311) and index.
Summary Describes how a cycle of rioting and violence leading up to the partition of India and birth of Pakistan resulted in brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing on both sides of the border, creating a divide between India and Pakistan that persists decades later.
Subject India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949.
Pakistan -- History -- 20th century.
Jinnah, Mahomed Ali, 1876-1948.
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964.
ISBN 9780547669212 (hardcover)
0547669216 (hardcover)
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