One Man's Partition
A Doctor's Journey Through Empire and Reich
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Beschreibung
In the shadows of empires, a doctor watches history shift and chooses silence over glory.
Set across colonial India, fascist Germany, and the newborn state of Pakistan, One Man's Partition: A Doctors Journey Through Empire and Reich follows the extraordinary life of a man whose choices shaped, and evaded, the tides of revolution.
A physician fluent in German, a Freemason in Bombay's hidden political circles, a delegate who once met Hitler and declined a ministership from Jinnah, Dr. Sadick moved through history without ever seeking its spotlight.
Told with intimacy, restraint, and rare insight, this fictionalised biography draws from firsthand family accounts to paint a portrait of resistance, secrecy, and sacrifice. It is the story of one man's quiet defiance, and the legacy he left not in books, but in blood.
Autor*in
Jamal Sadick
Jamal Sadick is the grandson of Dr. Mohammad Sadick and the son of Dr. Asad Sadick.
He was educated in Boston, St. Gallen, and Zürich, and holds degrees in business management, education and history
A longtime teacher of history and languages, he currently serves as the principal of a secondary school in Switzerland.
One Man's Partition: A Doctor's Journey Through Empire and Reich is his first work of fiction, rooted in family memory, archival fragments, and the quiet legacies left behind by lives lived between continents and ideologies.
He lives in Switzerland with his wife and their two daughters.
Themen in »One Man's Partition«
Partition colonial history Indian Independence Khaksar Movement British Empire