Books about the Indian Subcontinental Partition (fiction and nonfiction)

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Midnight’s Children
Midnight’s Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,717 ratings
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Train to Pakistan
Train to Pakistan 3.94 avg rating — 31,232 ratings
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Cracking India
Cracking India 3.85 avg rating — 5,867 ratings
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तमस
तमस 4.16 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
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What the Body Remembers
What the Body Remembers 3.91 avg rating — 2,972 ratings
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A Golden Age
A Golden Age 3.80 avg rating — 5,748 ratings
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The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India 4.08 avg rating — 982 ratings
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Freedom At Midnight
Freedom At Midnight 4.33 avg rating — 10,984 ratings
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The Shadow Lines
The Shadow Lines 3.86 avg rating — 8,848 ratings
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Mahatma Gandhi: The Congress And Partition Of India
Mahatma Gandhi: The Congress And Partition Of India
by: D.C. Jha
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Zero Defect
Zero Defect 3.84 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India 4.20 avg rating — 142 ratings
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River of Fire
River of Fire 4.04 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Toba Tek Singh: Stories
Toba Tek Singh: Stories 4.23 avg rating — 2,051 ratings
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Fireflies in the Mist
Fireflies in the Mist 4.03 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia: Refugees, Boundaries, Histories 4.02 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day 3.72 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
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Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border 3.96 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Partitions
Partitions 3.99 avg rating — 957 ratings
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy 4.39 avg rating — 18,030 ratings
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Shame
Shame 3.87 avg rating — 12,963 ratings
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The Heart Divided
The Heart Divided 4.12 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan 3.89 avg rating — 1,538 ratings
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The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in East India
The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in East India 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Good Muslim (Bangla Desh, #2)
The Good Muslim (Bangla Desh, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 2,607 ratings
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The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India
The Partitions of Memory: The Afterlife of the Division of India 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Bano / بانو
Bano / بانو 4.06 avg rating — 290 ratings
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My Life and Times: A Family Man's Journey from Rawalpindi to New York, and Many Places in Between
My Life and Times: A Family Man's Journey from Rawalpindi to New York, and Many Places in Between 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire 4.09 avg rating — 4,836 ratings
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The Well-Tended Garden (The Purana Qila Stories, #3)
The Well-Tended Garden (The Purana Qila Stories, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Night Diary
The Night Diary 4.21 avg rating — 19,981 ratings
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Memories of Madness: Stories in 1947
Memories of Madness: Stories in 1947 3.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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In Freedom's Shade
In Freedom's Shade 4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings
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A Bend in the Ganges
A Bend in the Ganges really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 202 ratings
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ज़िन्दगीनामा
ज़िन्दगीनामा 3.54 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Sunlight on a Broken Column
Sunlight on a Broken Column 3.92 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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Azadi
Azadi 3.88 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Partition of India
The Partition of India 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition
The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition 4.16 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Guilty Men of India's Partition
Guilty Men of India's Partition 3.69 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Pangs of Partitionvol 1: The Parting of Ways.
Pangs of Partitionvol 1: The Parting of Ways.
by: S. Settar
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Salt and Saffron
Salt and Saffron 3.46 avg rating — 1,968 ratings
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Lahore 1947
Lahore 1947 3.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Translating Partition: Essays, Stories, Criticism (Studies in Culture & Translation, ALT Series)
Translating Partition: Essays, Stories, Criticism (Studies in Culture & Translation, ALT Series) 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction
Witnessing Partition: Memory, History, Fiction 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World
The Peacemakers: India and the Quest for One World 3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Dust Beneath Her Feet (The Purana Qila Stories, #2)
The Dust Beneath Her Feet (The Purana Qila Stories, #2) 3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan
Troubled Pilgrimage: Passage to Pakistan 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The World War Deception
The World War Deception 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Tales of Two Cities
Tales of Two Cities 3.95 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Living Among the Believers: Stories From the Holy Land Down the Ganges
Living Among the Believers: Stories From the Holy Land Down the Ganges it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Celestial India: Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism
Celestial India: Madame Blavatsky and the Birth of Indian Nationalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A House Called Askival
A House Called Askival 4.27 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Ticket to India
Ticket to India 3.82 avg rating — 316 ratings
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Sleepwalkers
Sleepwalkers 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 4.49 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Vichhoda
Vichhoda 3.89 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Khaak aur Khoon / خاک اور خون
Khaak aur Khoon / خاک اور خون 4.14 avg rating — 711 ratings
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Raavi Paar and Other Stories
Raavi Paar and Other Stories
by: Gulzar
4.20 avg rating — 581 ratings
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1947: Where Now Begins
1947: Where Now Begins 3.93 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
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Stateless in South Asia: The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India (SAGE Studies on India′s North East)
Stateless in South Asia: The Chakmas between Bangladesh and India (SAGE Studies on India′s North East) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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A Moment Comes
A Moment Comes 3.65 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Women's Courtyard
Women's Courtyard 3.82 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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Basti (New York Review Books Classics)
Basti (New York Review Books Classics) 3.70 avg rating — 748 ratings
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Broken Mirror
Broken Mirror 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
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India partitioned: The other face of freedom (Volume 2)
India partitioned: The other face of freedom (Volume 2) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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A Beautiful Lie
A Beautiful Lie 3.87 avg rating — 845 ratings
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Gadaria: Ujlay Phool / گڈریا: اجلے پھول
Gadaria: Ujlay Phool / گڈریا: اجلے پھول 4.22 avg rating — 298 ratings
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From Purdah to Parliament
From Purdah to Parliament 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom Vol:1
India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom Vol:1 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Pages of My Life: Autobiography and Selected Stories
The Pages of My Life: Autobiography and Selected Stories 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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An Unrestored Woman
An Unrestored Woman 3.92 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
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The Bones of Grace
The Bones of Grace 3.81 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The secularist
The secularist liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Twilight in Delhi
Twilight in Delhi
by: Ahmed Ali
3.77 avg rating — 1,334 ratings
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Inner Courtyard
Inner Courtyard 3.82 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading Up To and Following the Partition of India
Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading Up To and Following the Partition of India 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 7)
Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (Contemporary South Asia, Series Number 7) 4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Pakistan or Partition of India
Pakistan or Partition of India 4.43 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Pathway to India's Partition (3 volumes)
Pathway to India's Partition (3 volumes) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Partition of India
The Partition of India 3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Stories About the Partition of India
Stories About the Partition of India 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Indian Muslims and Partition of India
Indian Muslims and Partition of India 3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Partition of India: Legend and Reality
Partition of India: Legend and Reality 4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Mountbatten And The Partition Of India
Mountbatten And The Partition Of India really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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India's Partition: Preludes and Legacies
India's Partition: Preludes and Legacies
by: Ramakant
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Pangs of Partition, v. 2: the Human Dimension
Pangs of Partition, v. 2: the Human Dimension
by: S. Settar
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Looking Through Glass
Looking Through Glass 3.58 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India
Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India 3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings