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1) The longest August: the unflinching rivalry between India and Pakistan

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Hiro, Dilip

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Indian and Pakistani Independence

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The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes — primarily in caravans of bullock-carts — to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in history. Sixty-seven years later, it is as if that August never ended.
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2) Inside Central Asia: a political and cultural history of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Iran

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Hiro, Dilip

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Overlook Duckworth

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Nonfiction about Central and South Asia

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From the Publisher: From a critically acclaimed author-a comprehensive history of the part of the world currently making headlines. The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world that is nonetheless poorly represented in libraries and mainstream media. Since their political incorporation in Stalin's Soviet era, these countries have gone through a flash...