Pakistan Declaration (titled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?) was a pamphlet written and published by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, on 28 January 1933, in which the word Pakstan (without the letter "i") was used for the first time and was presented in the Round Table confe...
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Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
By Venkat Dhulipala
Published by Cambridge University Press - 2015
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In his book on the idea of Pakistan, the historian Venkat Dhulipala argues t...
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New Book:
Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
By Venkat Dhulipala
Published by Cambridge University Press - 2015
This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm ...
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Pakistan And India Partition 1947 - The Day India Burned
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The partition of India تقسیم ہند was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics. This led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion ...
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Essay:
Getting The Picture - The mystery of an iconic Partition photograph
By Anhad Hundal
Caravan - 1 September 2016
On 18 August 1947, the American magazine Life carried a photograph of BS Kesavan, who would soon become the first national librarian of newly independent India. Captured by the p...
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Digital Rare Book:
Divide and Quit : An eye witness account of the Partition of India
By Penderel Moon
Published by Chatto and Windus, London - 1961
"This is a classic first-hand account one of the most cataclysmic events of the century, the Partition of India. The author, a member of the ICS po...
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New Book:
The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia
By Peter Hopkirk
Published by Oxford University Press - 2001
For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those e...
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New Book:
The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition
By Narendra Singh Sarila
Published by Harper Collins - 2009
The Shadow of The Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition provides a different perspective on the actual cause of the partition in India. The autho...
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Essay:
Gandhi's 1942 Letter to FDR, Asking For Support For Indian Independence
By Rebecca Onion
Slate.com
In July, 1942, Mahatma Gandhi wrote this letter to Franklin Roosevelt to state his position on Indian independence and involvement in World War II. Offering respect for the people of the Un...
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New Book:
Churchill, Roosevelt and India: Propaganda During World War II
By Auriol Weigold
Published by Rutledge - 2010
As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged ...
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