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An American witness to India's partition / Phillips Talbot ; with a foreword by B.R. Nanda.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Talbot, Phillips.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Talbot, Phillips.
- India--History.
- India.
- India--History--Partition, 1947.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- India--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (442 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1938 the New York-based Institute of Current World Affairs awarded 23-year-old Phillips Talbot a fellowship with a mandate: visit South Asia and learn about the intricacies of life in India. Till 1950, Talbot graphically recounted the buildup to Indian and Pakistani independence, and the early experiences of the new states in the form of several letters to the institute. Talbot`s reports from the field, presented here in the original, offer a kaleidoscope of first-hand observations: on student life at the Aligarh Muslim University, local life in a small Muslim community in Kashmir, a Vedic
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; India in London; My Introduction to India and its Politics; Kashmir and Lahore; Tour of Afghanistan, November 12-26, 1940; Gandhi's Ashram; and on to War Service; India after the War; Indian Ashrams, 1947; Asian Relations Conference and Beyond; Finally, the Arrival of Independence; Two Years after Independence; Afterword; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 93-5150-018-7
- 1-282-07799-6
- 9786612077999
- 81-321-0156-1
- OCLC:
- 646623657
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