Shade of Swords

Résumé du livre

The Shade of Swords unwraps two hundred years of India's history, focusing on the inter-communal, sectarian strife that has so blighted the country and the lives of its peoples. The Hindu-Muslim divide, like sectarianism in Northern Ireland, is seen by many both inside and outside India as an interminable and accepted fact of life. It has led to massacres, political assassinations, to the destruction of mosques (most provocatively the Barbi mosque in 1992) and alarming nuclear stand-offs between India and Pakistan.