So it is with Nisid Hajari’s book, Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition, a book that gives us a blow-by-blow account of the last year before Partition and the characters ...

"Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), a new book by Nisid Hajari (L). (Author photo: Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) The following ...

Through a somewhat random book club I recently joined I was forced to read Midnight Furies by Nisid Hajari. Political histories are not really my forte (I dragged my feet on the choice ...