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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition Copertina flessibile – 15 gennaio 2017

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After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody – they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s protégé and the political leader of India, believed Indians were an inherently nonviolent, peaceful people. Pakistan’s founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was a secular lawyer, not a firebrand. But in August 1946, exactly a year before Independence, Calcutta erupted in street-gang fighting. A cycle of riots – targeting Hindus, then Muslims, then Sikhs – spiralled out of control. As the summer of 1947 approached, all three groups were heavily armed and on edge, and the British rushed to leave. All hell let loose. Trains carried Muslims west and Hindus east to their slaughter. Some of the most brutal and widespread ethnic cleansing in modern history erupted on both sides of the new border, carving a gulf between India and Pakistan that remains a root cause of many evils. From jihadi terrorism to nuclear proliferation, the searing tale told in Midnight’s Furies explains all too many of the headlines we read today.
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‘Engaging and incisive … Hajari writes with grace, precision, and an unerring eye for detail.’ --The Wall Street Journal

‘As a contribution to the acknowledgement of Partition’s mistakes, this book is indispensable.’ --The Sunday Times

The Partition of British-ruled India in 1947 was a momentous event in world history that has impacted the war on terror as well as the politics and economy of Asia to a degree that is still not fully understood. Nisid Hajari s book illuminates it with a rare political acuity, narrative verve, and stylistic elegance. Unraveling canonized reputations and highlighting obscure ones, he shows how a large part of humanity came into its political inheritance, and the wounds this violent process left on the body politic of India and Pakistan. Anyone wondering how nuclear-armed South Asia came to be vulnerable to religious extremism will find clear and profound answers here. --Pankaj Mishra, author ofFrom the Ruins of Empire
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NISID HAJARI is the Asia Editor for Bloomberg View. Prior to Bloomberg, he spent a decade at Newsweek magazine, as Asia Editor, Foreign Editor, and eventually co-editor. He has appeared frequently as a commentator on foreign affairs on NPR, NBC and CNN, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Amberley Publishing (15 gennaio 2017)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Copertina flessibile ‏ : ‎ 352 pagine
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 144566013X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1445660134
  • Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 298 g
  • Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 19.9 x 3.9 x 12.9 cm
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abhijit aloni
5,0 su 5 stelle Excellent
Recensito in India il 29 maggio 2023
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Excellent and unbiased book
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5,0 su 5 stelle An objective view
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When writing about partition many historians blame the British for the death toll. However in reality all the Indian religious factions were guilty of inciting hatred, committing murder and other atrocities against each other. This book also points the finger at Jinnah and Nehru. It makes a change to the usual partition history written from a partisan viewpoint. I would recommend this book for those who want an objective, not partisan view of the events in India in 1947
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KumarSS-Manitoba
5,0 su 5 stelle A visceral description about the events surrounding the partition of India
Recensito in Canada il 12 agosto 2019
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My parents generation went through the turmoil of the separation of India and Pakistan at the end of the 40’s. Growing up in India till my teenage years, in the years following, I witnessed some of the aftermath of this event. I have always been curious about the details of what transpired during these events. This book provides a visceral account of the politics and the mindsets during that period. I cannot comment on the accuracy of the account, but it is a highly readable book.
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Klaus
4,0 su 5 stelle Very informative, lively and immediate account of the Partition
Recensito in Germania il 20 gennaio 2017
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I enjoyed this book very much. It is a history book that I could hardly put down. Tension like a novel, although the events happened 70 years ago.
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Phil in Magnolia
5,0 su 5 stelle The violent and destructive beginnings of modern Pakistan and India
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The Indian subcontinent had spent roughly 200 years under British rule when World War II approached and the desires for independence began to emerge with great vigor (the British East India company had ruled from about 1757 to 1858, followed by the British Raj where the British Crown ruled the subcontinent, from 1858 until the independence of Pakistan and India).

As the conflicts in Europe flared into full-scale war, the British Army made use of Indian troops (India at this time referring to the entire country as then defined). Those troops fought alongside Britains own soldiers in battle, while on the subcontinent the two movements that would develop into the driving forces behind independence - the Indian National Congress, and the Muslim League - gained strength. Britain needed that support from India, but also saw that independence was inevitable as soon as the war ended.

The Muslim league was led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and the Indian National Congress was led by Jawaharlal Nehru with support and spiritual backing from Mahatma Gandhi. A great number of other leaders and key personalities also played major roles in the development of the independence movements and the subsequent partition and fighting that took place, but the personalities of Jinnah and Nehru decided many of the key positions their respective parties took during this time.

And this is what I found most interesting about this book. It seems clear, according to the author, Nisid Hajari, that the stubbornness of both Jinnah and Nehru, and the inability of those two leaders to work together for the benefit of their peoples, was perhaps the most significant single element in how the early history of these two independent countries developed.

In fact he suggests more than once that it could have been possible for a united India to have emerged at this time, if different leaders had been in place, ones who could have compromised and worked together with a much greater degree of trust and respect than what Jinnah and Nehru had for each other. This is a great shame given how history has developed in the subsequent 60+ years, particularly (I would say) for Pakistan which has been far less successful economically and politically than has India.

Another strong impression that I receive from this book is that, once Britain decided that India should be given it's independence, the involvement of Britain in helping to provide some guidance to that process, so that it could proceed peacefully and with respect to both the Hindu and Muslim peoples of India, was slim and decreased to the point where Britain essentially withdrew and simply left the people of India to their own devices.

Instead of a united and independent India, what happened was a series of violent and horrific ethnic killings, provoked by sometimes almost trivial events on both sides, that began and then escalated and finally led to such mistrust and hatred that any hope of the peoples staying together in one country were lost as a result. The descriptions of how formerly peaceful neighbors would suddenly turn on one another, simply because one was Muslim and the other Hindu, are striking and chilling. It brings to mind other similar circumstances this world has seen in other areas in subsequent years.

In interviews recently, when Hajari has been discussing this book, he has also expressed his view that the foundations for much of the current behavior of Pakistan - it's support of insurgent groups in Afghanistan for example - can be found in this early history. He suggests that Pakistan's principal preoccupation since this time has been it's historic enemy India, and that just about all of it's decisions regarding involvement in conflicts outside of Pakistan can be connected to this distrust and fear of India.

I'm not convinced about that, but in reading the book it's not at all the main point anyway. I felt that I took away from this book a much greater understanding of the events of the period of roughly 1946 through 1948 or 49. Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. Jinnah had been very ill and finally died on September 11, 1948. Nehru was the only leader of those top three to still be healthy and in power. Pakistan was running out of money and from a practical standpoint really unable to continue to pursue any aggression against India. The countries began to settle into the divided condition that persists today, with the Kashmir region still unresolved and with the area of Eastern Pakistan later splitting off in 1971 and forming the current country of Bangladesh.
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