In the Wall Street Journal, Martin Rubin reviews two accounts of the birth of India and Pakistan 60 years ago:
Passion and Partition
By MARTIN RUBIN
September 27, 2007; Page D8
“The 60th anniversary of the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan has occasioned sweeping punditry and a host of narratives tracking the subcontinent’s fate, both political and economic, from that time to this. Indian Summer and India Remembered are, by contrast, intimate portraits of the partition moment itself. As such, they offer the compressed drama of a pivotal moment in 20th-century history, featuring oversize personalities and conflicting motives more than poverty statistics or geopolitical designs. …
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