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Ilsa

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5. No, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by

Reply to msanthrope (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 4, 2016, 05:26 AM

Oct 2016

Nisid Hajari.

These people of different beliefs and faith lived and worked next to each other for hundreds of years. Then, as British colonialism was ending, they simply decided they didn't want to any more. And it was brutal. The turnover and then the splitting were disastrous.

The author wonders about how our geopolitics would be different if they had not partitioned.

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