The definitive book on the impact of the Partition on everyday lives.The Partition of India in 1947 was one of the most horrific events of decolonization in the twentieth century, bringing death, rape and plunder in its wake.In The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan exposes the widespread ignorance of what Partition would entail in practice as well as the haste and recklessness with which it was completed. Drawing on fresh information from an array of sources and underscoring the catastrophic human cost involved, Khan provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of this cataclysmic event and its devastating legacy.About the AuthorYasmin Khan was born in London. She is a University Lecturer in British history at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. The Great Partition is her first book. It has won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society and been translated into Hindi and Urdu.