Indian summer : Indian summer : the secret history of the end of an empire
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Henry Holt and Co 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 401 p., [16] p. of plates ill., mapsISBN: 9780805080735; 0805080732Subject(s): StatesmenDDC classification: 954.03/59 Summary: At midnight on August 15, 1947, 400 million people were liberated from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower. This defining moment was brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister; Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the leader of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple sent to get Britain out of India. Within hours, their dreams would turn to chaos, bloodshed, and war. Behind the scenes, a secret personal drama was also unfolding, as Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru began a passionate love affair. Their romance developed alongside Cold War conspiracies, the beginning of a terrible conflict in Kashmir, and an epic sweep of events that saw one million people killed and ten million dispossessed.--From publisher description.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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954.0359 PAT/S Selected correspondence of Sardar Patel, 1945-50 | 954.0359 SHA/D Disastrous twilight : a personal record of the partition of India | 954.0359 TAR/W Witnessing partition : memory, history, fiction | 954.0359 TUN/I Indian summer : Indian summer : the secret history of the end of an empire | 954.0359 VAL/C.13 The collected works of Sardar vallabhai patel | 954.0359 VAL/C.15 The collected works of Sardar vallabhai patel | 954.0359092 SUB/N Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the last phase in his own words |
At midnight on August 15, 1947, 400 million people were liberated from the British Empire. With the loss of India, its greatest colony, Britain ceased to be a superpower. This defining moment was brought about by a handful of people: Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister; Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the leader of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple sent to get Britain out of India. Within hours, their dreams would turn to chaos, bloodshed, and war. Behind the scenes, a secret personal drama was also unfolding, as Edwina Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru began a passionate love affair. Their romance developed alongside Cold War conspiracies, the beginning of a terrible conflict in Kashmir, and an epic sweep of events that saw one million people killed and ten million dispossessed.--From publisher description.
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