Yasmin Khan
Professor Yasmin Khan is University Lecturer in 18th to early 20th century British History at the University of Oxford. She has a PhD on the History of the British Empire from Oxford University and has taught at the Edinburgh University and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book, The Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan , won the Gladstone Prize for History from the Royal Historical Society. Dr Khan has written for the New Statesman and Guardian and appeared on BBC...See more
Professor Yasmin Khan is University Lecturer in 18th to early 20th century British History at the University of Oxford. She has a PhD on the History of the British Empire from Oxford University and has taught at the Edinburgh University and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her first book, The Great Partition: the making of India and Pakistan , won the Gladstone Prize for History from the Royal Historical Society. Dr Khan has written for the New Statesman and Guardian and appeared on BBC radio and television, and is an editor of History Workshop Journal and a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust. See less
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Yasmin Khan book reviews
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Very informative
by Muratore, Jan 31, 2021
I bought this book because I wanted to learn the ABCs of India's partition. This book delivered. I give it only 4 stars because at times it appeared to provide redundant explanations where it should ... Read More
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
A Book Worth Reading & Keeping
One of the very few books that are a dispassionate and intelligent analysis of events around the 'HULCHUL' of Indian partition in 1947' Yasmin Khan has the advantage of being physically separated ... Read More
