Crisis in the Indian Subcontinent : Partition: Can it be Undone?

Contents: Foreword. Preface to second edition. 1. Throes of the Raj, 200 years of oppression. 2. Communist rendezvous with partition, communist party of India and the revolution lost. 3. Trauma of partition, a movement gone Berserk. 4. Mirage of freedom, a tryst with destiny...yet again. 5. The balance sheet of the independence, futile crusades of a debilitated bourgeoisie. 6. War and peace, Kashmir - The festering wound. 7. Impending crisis, the largest concentration of poverty in the world. 8. Undoing the partition, problems of reunification. 9. Socialist federation of the subcontinent, Utopia or a way out? Epilogue. Appendix. Chronology. Bibliography. Abbreviations. Works by the same author.

"The author has produced an enthralling account of the events leading up to and following the Act of Partition. He skillfully uses extracts from great writers' works, news articles, personal accounts of those involved. These vivid descriptions take the reader into the very heart of the events. This book "Crisis in the Indian Subcontinent - Partition... Can it be Undone?" is essential reading for all those involved in the struggle against hunger, disease, ignorance and unemployment anywhere in the world." (jacket)