The Great Divide: Britain, India, Pakistan (The Jubilee series) - Hardcover

Hodson, H.V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195778219 ISBN 13: 9780195778212

Publisher: OUP Pakistan, 2002

Synopsis

On 14 August, 1947, the greatest and most decisive step in the retreat of British imperialism occured - the new nation of Pakistan was created out of the body of India, and Britain's century-long domination over the subcontinent ended. An authoritative account of this crucial event was written by H.V. Hodson, Constitutional Adviser to Viceroy Linlithgow, in 1969. Sixteen years later, Hodson, in an epilogue, summed up the many harsh vicissitudes - political, natural, economic - that beset the two succesor nations, India and Pakistan, in their crucial formative years. Over 50 years on from that great divide, Hodson, in a new introduction, sums up the salient political happenings in the subcontinent in half that century and considers the way in which the transfer of power took place in 1947.

About this title

Review:

"For anyone interested in the fate of South-Asia after half a century of independence, this book is a magnificent fresco of the events leading up to this independence....a most valuable historical document."--Journal of Indo-European Studies

About the Author:

Historian, Constitutional Adviser to Viceroy Lord Linlithgow and former Editor of The Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Pakistan
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195778219
• ISBN 13: 9780195778212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 590