Freedom at Midnight
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780006388517
Category
Non Fiction
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Publication Year
1997
Publisher
Pages
576
Description
On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. In this reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.
Number of Copies
1
