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Indlæser... The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independenceaf Anthony Read, David Fisher
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)954.03History and Geography Asia India and South Asia 1785–1947 British ruleLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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all the great empires. The authors tell the 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." --back
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