Home›Sources›Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007)SourcesYasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007)Yale University PressCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/khan-the-great-partition-the-making-of-india-and-pakistan.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/khan-the-great-partition-the-making-of-india-and-pakistanCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-yasmin-khan-the-great-partition-the-maki, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/khan-the-great-partition-the-making-of-india-and-pakistan}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA widely cited modern history of the 1947 partition arguing that the rushed, chaotic character of the British withdrawal, including a boundary line announced only after independence itself and a security apparatus disintegrating along the very religious lines it was meant to police, was a decisive driver of the scale the violence reached.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (12 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedYasmin KhanPublisherWell-attestedYale University PressPublication YearWell-attested2007Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Khan is a historian at the University of Oxford and this Yale University Press book, winner of the Gladstone Prize, is one of the most widely cited modern narrative histories of partition, the source this atlas draws its displacement figure and its administrative-collapse causal reading from.SourcesYasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007)tier 1Yasmin Khan, Yale University Press, 2007Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.Wars & Conflicts, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.Articles, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested10ArticlesA Line Drawn in Five Weeks, and the Violence That FollowedSourcesYasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (2007)Wars & ConflictsPartition of IndiaGeneral References2ArticlesA Line Drawn in Five Weeks, and the Violence That FollowedWars & ConflictsPartition of IndiaComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year