The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom—through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, th…

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