01801nam a22002297a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200210008810000310010924500520014026000430019230000280023536500300026350000120029352011860030565000190149165000170151065100100152770000340153720210930112911.0210930b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0393045943  cAL  aeng  223a954.03bREAP  aAnthony Read; David Fisher  aProudest day:bIndias long road to independence  aNew YorkbW W Norton and Companyc1997  axiv,565p.bHBc24x16cm.  b300c₹d300f2013/03/24  aHistory  aIn 1835, Lord Macaulay, in his Minute on Indian Education, had prophesied that the eventual self-rule of India would be "the proudest day in British history."

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.uhttp://michaelpatterson.xyz/download/q9ebuSG64dkC-the-proudest-day  aIndian History  aIndependence  aIndia  aREAD (Anthony);FISHER (David)