Talbot, Phillips <br/><br/>
An American witness to India's partition / 
Philips Talbot 
 - New Delhi :  Sage Publications,  2007 
 - 440p., 22cm. 
<br/><br/>This volume is a collection of Talbot s letters written between 1938 and 1950, on the buildup to the independence of India and Pakistan, and the early experiences of the new states. Talbot s letters and reports from the field, presented here in the original, include his first-hand observations on student life at Aligarh Muslim University, local life in a small Muslim community in Kashmir, a Vedic ashram in Lahore, Tagore s Shantiniketan, Gandhi s Sevagram, the Kodaikanal Ashram Fellowship, and Hindu and Muslim urban communities in Lahore and Bombay, and Afghanistan. Learning about Indian politics, Talbot attended crucial meetings of the Indian National Congress, including the Ramgarh Conclave at the beginning of World War II, and the All India Muslim League s Lahore session at which the Pakistan resolution was adopted in 1940 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780761936183 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Talbot, Phillips. India--Politics and government--1919--1947. India--History--Partition, 1947. India--Social conditions--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>954.0359  / TAL