SINGH, Kirpal. The Partition of the Punjab … Foreword Kirpal Sing Narang. Patiala, Punjabi University, [1972].
8vo. Original cloth with lithographic dust-wrappers; pp. xiv, [2], 188; a few maps and plates, wrappers with marginal flaws, cloth a little spotted; otherwise very good.
Very rare first edition (1100 copies, printed), signed presentation copy, inscribed by the author in 1978 to Dr. H. A. Zaidi of SOAS in London. A very rare and important book on the subject, and especially on how the Sikh community was affected by the traumatic events of 1947 and 1948. Born in 1924 Kirpal Singh joined Khalsa College as head of the Sikh History Research Department. He continued his research in British archives and became reader at Patiala College, focussing on Punjab and Sikh history.
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