Midnight's Furies: The Birth of India and Pakistan and the Horror of Partition
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Sep 2026 · M. Muñoz · AI-narrated by Martin (from Google)
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Midnight's Furies. The Birth of India and Pakistan and the Horror of Partition. At midnight on August 14–15, 1947, two nations were born and one of the greatest catastrophes in history began. The Partition of British India divided a subcontinent, shattered communities that had coexisted for centuries, and triggered a frenzy of violence that killed between 200,000 and one million people and displaced 15 million more. Midnight's Furies tells the full story of how this happened — the political decisions, human errors, and structural pressures that led to catastrophe. It follows Jinnah's transformation from secular constitutionalist to uncompromising separatist, Mountbatten's catastrophically accelerated timeline, and Radcliffe's impossible task of drawing a line through Punjab he had never seen. It descends into the violence: the organized massacres, the trains arriving full of corpses, the abduction of 75,000 to 100,000 women. And it traces the long shadow of Partition in the seventy-five years since — the Kashmir conflict, three wars, the nuclear standoff, and the two nations still unable to achieve normal relations. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand South Asia's present from its traumatic past.
Midnight's Furies. The Birth of India and Pakistan and the Horror of Partition. At midnight on August 14–15, 1947, two nations were born and one of the greatest catastrophes in history began. The Partition of British India divided a subcontinent, shattered communities that had coexisted for centu...
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