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The Punjab bloodied, partitioned and cleansed : unravelling the 1947 tragedy through secret British reports and first-person accounts /

Ahmed, Ishtiaq

The Punjab bloodied, partitioned and cleansed : unravelling the 1947 tragedy through secret British reports and first-person accounts / Ishtiaq Ahmed - Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2014 - xlviii, 592 p.

includes index.

This is a month-by-month account of what happened in 1947 when the Punjab was partitioned as a consequence of the partition of India. Some 10 million Punjabis were forced to flee from their homes; 500,000 to 800,000 were killed.

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9780199400287


Punjab (India) -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Sources.
India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Sources.
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947 -- Sources.

954.504 A286P 2014
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