THE EMERGENCE OF PAKISTAN

by Chaudri Muhammad Ali ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1967

As might be expected, Lord Mountbatten and Hindu India's Congress Party come in for substantial criticism in this first major Pakistani-written (and thus Muslim-oriented) history of Indian partition. Twenty years after the events, there is intense moral conviction in the tone and structure of ex-Prime Minister Muhammad Ali's argument that a ""deal between Mountbatten and the Congress leaders for a quick (and there's the emphasis) transfer of power"" created immediate extra problems for Pakistan and fostered a long-range syndrome of controversy over Kashmir. Chapters 1-8 are background on British raj and the era of dyarchy, with some intimate sketches of Muslim and Hindu leaders. Chapters 9-14 cover early administrative, industrial, agricultural, diplomatic, and military difficulties, the wrangle over Pakistan's original boundaries, the accession of the Indian States, the civil uprisings, refugees, and minorities, and political developments through the time of Nehru's death; Chapters 16 and 17 describe present conditions of economics, finance, education, administration, and political life. Careful reading is required here, but its reward is a sense of regained balance if one is in the habit of keeping up with the great outpouring of books on Hindu India.

Pub Date: May 1, 1967

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Columiba Univ. Press

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1967

Categories: NONFICTION