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Among the more important achievements of the British in Punjab was the creation of an effective and remarkably loyal intermediary administrative system. The Unionist Party was the resultant manifestation of this policy. This book deals with the origin of the Unionist Party, its policies, its politics, its moments of success, its failures, as well as the commitment of most of its leaders to the colonial system and how their actions and programmes were so deeply ...
The study is a novel attempt that chronicles Punjab’s partition while dealing with ‘partition itself’. The narrative weaves disparate local and national events, taking the reader back to 1947 in dimensions large in numbers and scope. Almost a day to day report of the Punjab through 1947, it restores the human dimension to a story that was essentially one of acute human misery. Based mainly on 15 regional and national newspapers it closely examines the ...