num_pages: 302
description: Britain's transfer of power to India and Pakistan in August of 1947 was a cataclysmic event in modern history. Anita Inder Singh shows that although long-term strategic interests of Britain were against partition, short-term tactics encouraged this major act of decolonization.
language: English
title: The Origins of the Partition of India 1936-1947
titlecomplete: The Origins of the Partition of India 1936-1947 (Oxford University South Asian Studies Series)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Oxford University Press