INDIA'S PARTITION

Nisid Hajarai, Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) ("What truly continues to haunt today's world are the furies that were unloosed in 1947--the fears and suspicions and hatreds forged in partition's searing crucible. In those few weeks, and the few months that followed, a dangerous psychological chasm would open up between India and Pakistan. Leaders on both sides would suspect their counterparts of winking at genocide. Their mutual mistrust and scheming for advantage quickly brought their infant nations to the brink of war, and then ignited shadow contests for control over the kingdoms of Hyderabad in the south and Kashmir in the north. In less than a year, the Indian and Pakistani armies would confront one another on the battlefield." Id. at xix. See generally, William Dalrymple, The Great Divide," The New Yorker, June 29, 2015; and Aatish Taseer, "State of Disintegration," NYT Book Review, Sunday, July 12, 2015.).