- Political violence, History, Fiction, India, fiction
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Khushwant Singh
- First published
- 1956
- Pages
- 207
- Publisher
- Orient Longman, Roli Books, Penguin
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9788175300330
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“THE summer of 1947 was not like other Indian summers.”
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