Amritsar to Lahore: A Journey Across the India-Pakistan Border
- ISBN-10
- 0812217438
- ISBN-13
- 9780812217438
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Stephen Alter
Description
A sensitive and thoughtful look at the lasting effects on everyday people of the 1947 partition of India.
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