Description
Ian Stephens was for many years editor of the Indian Statesman and later held an official post in Pakistan. His dramatic account of the construction of a new Muslim state in the Indian sub-continent is based both on written sources and on his own observation and experience.
The story he tells of the turbulent and blood-soaked years following the withdrawl of the British Raj is placed in the perspective of Muslim historysince the mutiny of 1857 and in the context of the geographical and social factors which are peculiar to Pakistan. Many readers will feel that Ian Stephens, particularly in his comments on Wavell and Mountbatten, his record of the military revolution of 1958, and his chapter on Kashmir, has considerably widened our knowledge of recent history.
