William E Colby award bestowed upon “Midnight’s Furies” – A Book on India’s Partition

USD 5,000 William E Colby Award 2016 of US has been conferred upon book“Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition” authored by Nisid Hajari.

• Midnight’s Furies, Hajari’s first book, covers the 1947 partition of India that created Pakistan as a separate state, the violence surrounding the partition and why those tensions persist to this day.
• The award and honorarium will be presented to Hajari at Norwich Universityduring the 2016 William E. Colby Military Writer’s Symposium on April 6-7.