Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari

Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

Nisid Hajari

304 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody — it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries. Jawaharlal Nehru, Gandhi’s protégé and the politic...

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