The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to IndependenceW. W. Norton & Company, 1999 - 608 lappuses And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety -- not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality. The Proudest Day is a riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Anthony Read and David Fisher tell the whole epic story in compelling and colorful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier; their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants --Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah --who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years. Meanwhile, a succession of British politicians and viceroys veered wildly between liberalism and repression until the Raj became a powder keg, wanting only a match. |
Saturs
In Quiet Trade | 10 |
The Strangest of all Empires | 27 |
The Moaning of the Hurricane | 53 |
If Fifty Men Cannot be Found | 69 |
The Gravity of the Blunder | 83 |
No Bombs No Boons | 102 |
A Spontaneous Loyalty | 114 |
An Indefensible System | 132 |
A Landmark in the Future History of India | 293 |
A Postdated Cheque on a Bank that is Failing | 310 |
Leave India to God or to Anarchy | 325 |
The Two Great Mountains have Met | 341 |
Patriots not Traitors | 359 |
We are on the Threshold of a Great Tragedy | 372 |
If India Wants Her Bloodbath she shall have it | 390 |
Possible New Horror Job | 409 |
God Bless Gandhi | 142 |
A Himalayan Miscalculation | 162 |
The Very Brink of Chaos and Anarchy | 179 |
A Butchery of Our Souls | 197 |
A Years Grace and a Polite Ultimatum | 211 |
A Mad Risk | 226 |
Civil Martial Law | 245 |
The Empty Fruits of Office | 260 |
The Congress Asked for Bread and it has Got a Stone | 277 |
Plan Balkan | 424 |
Thirteen Months Means Mischief to India | 442 |
A Treaty of Peace without a War | 459 |
A Tryst with Destiny | 476 |
Epilogue | 494 |
Source Notes | 509 |
Bibliography | 533 |
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The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence Anthony Read,David Fisher Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 1998 |
The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence Anthony Read,David Fisher Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 1998 |
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