Freedom at midnight /
The authors have re-created the majestic and tumultuous end of an era, when 400,000,000 people, one fifth of all humanity, claimed their freedom from the greatest empire history has ever known -- only to find that the price of freedom was partition, war, riots and murder. Their subject is the eclips...
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
1975
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Prologue
- 1. 'A race destined to govern and subdue'
- 2. 'Walk alone, walk alone'
- 3. 'Leave India to God'
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- 5. A last tattoo for the dying Raj
- 5. An old man and his shattered dream
- 6. A precious little place
- 7. Palaces and tigers, elephants and jewels
- 8. A day cursed by the stars
- 9. The most complex divorce in history
- 10. 'We will always remain brothers ' 11. While the world slept
- 12.'Oh lovely dawn of freedom'
- 13. 'Our people have gone mad'
- 14. The greatest migration in history
- 15. 'Kashmir -only Kashmir!'
- 16. Two brahmins from Poona
- 17. 'Let Gandhi die!'
- 18. The vengeance of Madanlal Pahwa
- 19. 'We must get Gandhi before the police get us'
- 20. The second crucifixion .
