The Lost Homestead - My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

Zusatztext Her poignant memoir reminds us that our past shares no borders with our present. Informationen zum Autor Marina Wheeler is a barrister and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2016, she specialises in public and human rights law and also teaches mediation and conflict resolution. She co-authored The Civil Practitioner's Guide to the Human Rights Act and writes regularly for the UK Human Rights blog as well as national newspapers, usually on legal subjects. Marina lives in east London. Klappentext Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives. Vorwort Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives. Zusammenfassung Through her mother's memories, accounts from her Indian family and her own research in both India and Pakistan, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Marina Wheeler, explores how the peoples of these new nations struggled to recover and rebuild their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Wheeler, Wheeler Marina
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781473677760
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-7776-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Pakistan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia, India, Colonialism & imperialism, Local interest, family history & nostalgia, Local & family history, nostalgia, partition mahatma gandhi india raj pakistan british empire, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999