But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. With an instinct for drama and a skill in narration, the authors take the reader from Whitehall to Delhi, to Calcutta, to Lahore, to Pula, to the villages of the Punjab and Bengal their hold on the reader never falters.' - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH About the Author:īook Description Paperback. It will give more non-Indians more knowledge of the vast circumstances surrounding the birth of India than anything previously written. 'A heroic tale that has not been told a tenth as, well before. illuminated in scenes like a pageant.' - TIME "I defy a reader to put the book down once Robinson has got him into the air." Paul Fussell, NEW REPUBLIC 'The song of India. It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.' JAMES CAMERON, NEW YORK TIMES The dialogue is convincing, the story is emotionally moving and it contains some of the best descriptions of battle I've read." - TIME OUT
Having been there most of the time in question, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. 'There is no single passage in I this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault. OL1751683W Page_number_confidence 95.06 Pages 674 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211025140445 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 405 Scandate 20211023070216 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9788125904809 Tts_version 4.'Thrilling.
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