This is a doctoral dissertation for which the author, now settled abroad, got her doctorate from Oxford some six years ago. It is on an important subject, whose consequences are still with us, written by someone born after the horrible days of communal rioting and Partition, belonging to a different generation than the reviewer whose province, like hers, was partitioned, along with the Partition of the sub-continent. As a professional historian working in the same field, on sources that overlap a great deal, and trying to look at a historic process what appeared as a rapidly bewildering succession of events in one’s boyhood, this book has been well worth reading.
Sept-Oct 1987, volume 11, No 5