The Last Durbar: The Division of British India
By Shashi Joshi.
Description
The existing histories of the Partition of British India have very little chance of capturing the moods and mindsets, the helplessness and frustration of those who steered the course. The histories written thus far have either focused on political narratives or on ideological analysis. More recently, the spotlight has turned towards the madness and pathology of hatred and mass murders.The Last Durbar tells it as it was - without the epic quality of conventional writing filled with the rhetoric of freedom and greatness, and without the legalese and constitution-making vocabulary of the Trans...
ISBN(s)
8174365834, 9780195472172
