INDIA AND PAKISTAN AFTER PARTITION

Murray, John (publisher)

A Handbook for Travellers in India and Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon: Including the Portuguese and French Possessions and the Indian States [1949 - Complete]

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1949.

MURRAY HANDBOOK FOR THE NEWLY INDEPENDENT SUBCONTINENT.
Published in 1949, two years after the independence and partition of British India, this sixteenth edition covers the newly constituted India and Pakistan, together with Burma and Ceylon. A practical travel guide, it provides detailed routes, accommodations, transportation, historical and cultural information, and numerous maps and plans. Its particular interest lies in documenting a region whose travel infrastructure still reflected the British period while its political geography had fundamentally changed. fundamentally changed.

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS: A COMPACT GUIDE BUILT FOR TRAVEL.
Original red cloth with blind-ruled borders, front board and spine lettered in gilt. Small octavo, approximately 7 inches tall. ; cxxix, [1], 2–792 pages, with index. Numerous city and regional maps and plans, including several folding maps and a large folding map of India, Pakistan, Burma, and Ceylon in the rear pocket. Two silk ribbon place markers. Text block edges publisher spotted. Sixteenth Edition.

CONDITION: Very Good+ Binding tight and square. Moderate shelf and handling wear to the cloth, with rubbing and fading, particularly to the spine and extremities. Gilt remains readable. Text clean with light, even age-toning. Maps and plans complete, including the folding maps and the large map in the rear pocket. Spine shows sun-fading.

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: TRAVEL AT THE END OF THE BRITISH RAJ.
Published in 1949, this edition appeared shortly after the independence and partition of British India and the independence of Burma and Ceylon. Murray's revised title reflects this changed political geography while retaining the practical framework of the long-established British travel guide.

A GUIDEBOOK AS HISTORICAL RECORD.
Its routes, railways, accommodations, monuments, archaeological sites, and detailed maps document travel across South Asia at the beginning of the postcolonial period. The handbook thus captures a region whose political order had fundamentally changed while much of its travel infrastructure still reflected the British era.

SUBJECTS: India, Pakistan, Burma, Myanmar, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, South Asia, John Murray, Murray's Handbooks, Travel, Railways, Maps, Cartography, Delhi, Indian Independence, Partition of India, Postcolonial South Asia, Travel Guides, South Asian History, British Travel Literature.

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Price: $85.00