01883nam a22002537a 4500 20210930112911.0 210930b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0393045943 AL eng 23 954.03 REAP Anthony Read; David Fisher 582 Proudest day: Indias long road to independence New York W W Norton and Company 1997 xiv,565p. HB 24x16cm. 300 ₹ 300 2013/03/24 History In 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. http://michaelpatterson.xyz/download/q9ebuSG64dkC-the-proudest-day Indian History 583 Independence 584 India 585 READ (Anthony);FISHER (David) 586 ddc GF 216443 216443 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 954.03 REAP GF03024 2021-09-30 00:00:00 http://michaelpatterson.xyz/download/q9ebuSG64dkC-the-proudest-day 2013-03-24 GF