01308nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100120008008200210009210000290011324500520014226000320019430000320022652006970025865000500095565000600100570000190106570000180108420220506102221.0220506b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0224039563  cAL  aEnglish  223a954.03bREAP  aAnthony Read  and others  aProudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence  aLondonbJonathan Capec1997  axxv,565 p.bHBc24x15.5 cm.  aAt midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the peoples of India, without a single shot being fired in anger. Bathed in the rosy glow of retrospect, the birth of modern India and Pakistan has come to be regarded in the west as a great achievement, "the proudest day in Britain's history", as predicted by Lord Macauley in 1835. But how justified is the romantic popular image? Was Indian independence a noble gesture by a benevolent colonial power or was freedom wrested from the British by Indian nationalists after more than a quarter of a century of bitter struggle? "The Proudest Day" examines whether the winning of freedom in India was a triumph or a tragedy.  aIndia--History--British occupation, 1765-1947  aIndia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements  aREAD (Anthony)  aFISHER(David)