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041			_aEnglish
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100			_aAnthony Read and others _934282
245			_aProudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
260			_aLondon _bJonathan Cape _c1997
300			_axxv,565 p. _bHB _c24x15.5 cm.
520			_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.
650			_aIndia--History--British occupation, 1765-1947 _934283
650			_aIndia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements _934284
700			_aREAD (Anthony) _934285
700			_aFISHER(David) _934286
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