Holy Warriors

I picked it up at the library while pulling down a bunch of other, more general, books on the subcontinent. For some reason religious fundamentalists fascinate me, and I will read books on them, not matter what flavor of fundamental they are. This was an interesting read, since it seems like a lot of history books gloss over the impact of religion in the area aside from Pakistan = Muslim, India = Hindu and/or Secular-ish. It seemed at times like a bit too much of a travelogue and Fernandes gets up her own ass occasionally with the flowery descrptions of things, but the basic information about the way the British partition plan fucked up Indian conceptions of religion and self, and therefore the subcontinent's history from the 1950s on is solid. There's some really interesting stuff about Catholics and Baptists mixed in with the meatier information about the political and social structures and interactions between Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.