Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India by Bishwanath Ghosh

Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India

Bishwanath Ghosh

356 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
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In July 1947, British barrister Cyril Radcliffe was summoned to New Delhi and given five weeks to draw, on the map of the subcontinent, two zigzagged lines that would decide the future of one-fifth of the human race.One line, 553 kilometres long, ...

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