Spirals of Contention: Why India Was Partitioned in 1947

by SatishSaberwal (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $140.41

  Examines the social and social psychological processes that led up to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. This book works from a dual corpus: the historians' for medieval and modern India, the sociologists' for Indian society. It moves between evidence and general understanding, and focuses on social and psychological processes.