Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border

by Stephen Alter

Book Overview

"During the course of my journey, many of the people I met in Pakistan and India expressed a curious combination of affection, indifference, and animosity toward their neighbors across the border. . . . The border divides them but it is also a seam that joins the fabric of their cultures."

On 15 August 1947, in what some have argued was the final, cynical act of a collapsing empire, the British left India divided. Arbitrary borders that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217438
• ISBN13: 9780812217438
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"