<p>NAME: ______PER: ______Reading Excerpt from The New Yorker - Exit Wounds</p><p>1. How many people were estimated to have been “uprooted” during the partition of India?</p><p>2. How many people may have been murdered in the partition of India and Pakistan?</p><p>3. Mohandas Gandhi exhorted the British to leave India to God or to ?</p><p>4. What politicians saw the Congress Party as a party of upper-caste Hindus?</p><p>5. While Gandhi stayed in Calcutta trying to stop a bloodbath between Muslims and Hindus his great rival, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, remained in what city?</p><p>6. Who said, “a moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we tep out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed finds utterance.” </p><p>7. How many wars has India and Pakistan fought over Kashmir?</p><p>8. What disease killed Jinnah?</p><p>9. Ms. Von Tunzelmann charges Britain damaged agriculture in India and did what to industrial growth?</p><p>10. The British had a blind faith in what force, that supposedly regulated markets?</p><p>11. How many Indians died of famine in 1877 as the viceroy argued famine relief was a misguided policy?</p><p>12. How many maharajas were there in India in 1947? </p><p>13. What would you describe as the “rights and responsibilities of secular and democratic citizenship?” (not in the reading, your opinion)</p><p>14. The British followed a policy of defining communities based on what criteria?</p><p>15. What did Winston Churchill hope would remain as a “bulwark of British rule in India?”</p><p>16. Why did Lord Willingdon to describe Gandhi as a “terribly difficult little person” in a 1931 letter?</p><p>17. What song did Lord Linlithgow enjoy having played every night as he sat for dinner?</p><p>18. Churchill is described as knowing as much about the “Indian problem” as George III did of the American colonies.” Is this a flattering remark or a disparaging one?</p><p>19. Both Gandhi and Nehru were imprisoned for their role in a Congress party campaign during World War II. What campaign?</p><p>20. What type of Pakistan did Jinnah want to create? 21. Tunzelmann describes the subcontinent as “a mess” in 1946 with a growing hostility on the part of Indians towards who/what?</p><p>22. Why could Britain not hold onto its “increasingly unstable empire?”</p><p>23. Muslims feared the secular nationalism of Gandhi and Nehru was a cover for what?</p><p>24. How many people were killed in 3 days of religious rioting in the summer of 1946 in Calcutta?</p><p>25. After exposing his ship to German torpedo fire, Mountbatten observed a torpedo “streaking toward” his ship. What did he think to himself?</p><p>26. What was Mountbatten’s nickname in the British admiralty?</p><p>27. Was Mountbatten a wise politician?</p><p>28. The “trickiest” maharajah was the Hindu prince of what province, populated by a Muslim majority?</p><p>29. How many days was Cyril Radcliffe given to define the political geography of India and its borders with the new state of Pakistan?</p><p>30. The drawing of borders and the crystallizing of national identities along religious lines plunged millions into what state?</p><p>31. Right before he died in 1977 Radcliffe gave an explanation of why he never returned to India. What was the reason?</p><p>32. What became “the totemic image of the savagery of partition?”</p><p>33. How many Muslims were massacred in Gujarat in 2002?</p><p>34. What has the problem of Kashmir done to India and Pakistan? (2 effects)</p><p>35. What do Indian police and soldiers routinely do to Muslim insurgents in Kashmir?</p><p>36. The author writes Churchill’s “expedient boosting of political Islam would eventually unleash” what?</p><p>37. What does “the human cost of imperial over-reaching seems unlikely to attain a final tally for many more decades” mean? </p>