Library History 474 / ASLC 474

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Documents:

• Document 1 - Tanter, Raymond, and Nicholas Jakobson. “Partition.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William Darity, Jr., 2nd ed., 159–61. Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
• Document 2 - Yasmin Khan. “Performing Peace: Gandhi’s Assassination as a Critical Moment in the Consolidation of the Nehruvian State.” Modern Asian Studies 45, no. 1 (2011): 57–80.
• Document 3 - “Last Procession to the Sacred Godavari: Wide Observance of Immersion of Mahatma’s Ashes.” Times of India. February 14, 1948.

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