Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border

by Stephen Alter

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"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animosity toward their neighbors across the border. . . . The border divides them but it is also a seam that joins the fabric of their cultures."

On 15 August 1947, in what some have argued was the final, cynical act of a collapsing empire, the British left India divided. Arbitrary borders that...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812217438

ISBN13:9780812217438

Release Date:August 2000

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Related Subjects

Asia Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History General India Middle East Pakistan Politics & Government

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