TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anthony Read  and others
AU  - READ (Anthony)
AU  - FISHER(David)
TI  - Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
SN  - 0224039563
U1  - 954.03 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947
KW  - India -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
N2  - 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
ER  -