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100			_aAnthony Read; David Fisher _9582
245			_aProudest day: _bIndias long road to independence
260			_aNew York _bW W Norton and Company _c1997
300			_axiv,565p. _bHB _c24x16cm.
365			_b300 _c₹ _d300 _f2013/03/24
500			_aHistory
520			_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
650			_aIndian History _9583
650			_aIndependence _9584
651			_aIndia _9585
700			_aREAD (Anthony);FISHER (David) _9586
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