The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan | Gladstone Prize Winner | South Asian History & Partition Book | Yale University Press

The Great Partition by Oxford historian Yasmin Khan is the most powerful and accessible account of the 1947 Partition of India — one of the bloodiest and most significant events of the 20th century.

- Weaves together local politics, ordinary lives & political forces to reveal the catastrophic human cost of Partition
- Over 1 million killed & 10–15 million displaced — a tragedy that still scars India and Pakistan today
- Winner of the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society | Translated into Hindi & Urdu
- Praised by The Economist as "a riveting book," Times London & BBC's Owen Bennett Jones
- Perfect for South Asian history lovers, Pakistan & India studies students & anyone seeking to understand Partition