Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished contemporary documents, T.G. Fraser analyzes the arguments for and against partition as they were presented by the main protagonists at the time. It looks at ways in which partition was seen as intellectual or as an ad hoc solution to rival national claims, how it was related to ethnic conflict, and how it was complicated by economic factors and patterns of population distribution.
Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished contemporary documents, T.G. Fraser analyzes the arguments for and against partition as they were presented by the main protagonists at the time. It looks at ways in which partition was seen as intellectual or as an ad hoc solution to rival national claims, how it was related to ethnic conflict, and how it was complicated by economic factors and patterns of population distribution.