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Division of the Spoils (Raj Quartet) (Paperback)
$18.56 - Save $2.91 (13%) - RRP $21.47 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Division of the SpoilsAgainst the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.
Full description- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Published: 22 June 1998
- Format: Paperback 598 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics | Historical Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780226743448 ISBN 10: 0226743446
- Sales rank: 563,438
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Full description for Division of the Spoils
After exploiting India's divisions for years, the British depart in such haste that no one is prepared for the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1947. The twilight of the raj turns bloody. Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, A Division of the Spoils illuminates one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India.

