The Partition of India

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This book places the partition of India in an international perspective to show how reasons of state and religious, ethnic or cultural division have been inextricably intertwined in creating the situations that have led to partition in different parts of the world. The partition of India was one of the most cataclysmic events in world history. The transfer of power to India and Pakistan in August 1947 was the first major act of decolonisation by the British, with far-reaching consequences on their international power. This book shows how and why British interests and political division between Indian parties combined to bring about the partition of British India, ostensibly on a religious basis in August 1947.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anita Inder Singh

Anita Inder Singh (D.Phil., Oxon) is Ford Foundation Fellow at the Centre for Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has taught International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Oxford University. Her books include Democracy, Ethnic Diversity and Security in Postcommunist Europe (Westport and London 2001: Praeger), The Limits Anglo-American Relationship 1947-1956 (New York and London 1993: St. Martin's Press and Palgrave Macmillan), and The Origins of the Partition of India, 1936-47 (Oxford University Press); also included in the Partition Omnibus (OUP 2002).