About this episode
As the British Raj crumbles, old animosities begin to stir in the subcontinent’s communities. Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru face a formidable new adversary in the form of Muhammed Ali Jinnah, who calls for the creation of a separate Muslim nation - Pakistan. Hindu-Muslim tensions, fueled by political polarization and corrosive rhetoric, explode into sectarian violence during the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946. Sources:Akbar, M.J. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. 2011.Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India. 2003.Tharoor, Shashi. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. 2017.Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. 2007.Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World. 2018.Sarila, Narendra Singh. The Shadow of the Great Game. 2005.Charles Rivers Editors. The Punjab. 2018.Charles Rivers Editors. British India. 2017.Puri, Kavita. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. 2019.Malhotra, Aanchal. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects From A Continent Divided. 2017.Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer. 2007.Zakaria, Anam. The Footprints of Partition. 2015.Ahmed Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity. 1997.Urvashi, Butalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 1998.White-Spunner, Barney. Partition. 2017.Lawrence, James. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997.Hamdani, Yasser Latif. Jinnah: A Life. 2020.Fischer, Louis. Gandhi. 1950. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
