01398nam a22002297a 4500 20220506102221.0 220506b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0224039563 AL English 23 954.03 REAP Anthony Read and others 34282 Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence London Jonathan Cape 1997 xxv,565 p. HB 24x15.5 cm. At 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. India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947 34283 India -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements 34284 READ (Anthony) 34285 FISHER(David) 34286 ddc GF 222803 222803 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 954.03 REAP GF03087 2022-05-06 00:00:00 2022-05-06 GF