A standard modern academic history of the 1947 partition of British India, covering its political run-up, the communal violence in Punjab and Bengal, and the migration and resettlement that followed, written by two established historians of modern South Asia.
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Talbot (University of Southampton) and Singh (SOAS) are established historians of modern Punjab and South Asian politics respectively; this Cambridge University Press book is a standard modern synthesis of partition scholarship, cited throughout this atlas's Partition entry for the documented, deliberately targeted character of the 1947 communal violence. Citation
AuthorIan Talbot and Gurharpal Singh
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year2009
Source Typeacademic monograph
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- Wars & Conflicts, 13 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 8 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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