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Freedom at midnight.

by Collins, Larry
Additional authors: Co-Author -- Lapierre, Dominique
Published by : Simon & Schuster (New York) Physical details: 532 p. ISBN:44025.
Subject(s): History -- 1947-
Year: 1975
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900 - 999 954.04 Col (Browse shelf) Available 44025

Includes Index and Bibliography




"Race destined to govern and subdue" --
"Walk alone, Walk alone" --
"Leave India to god" --
Last tattoo for a dying Raj --
Old man and his shattered dream --
Precious little place --
Palaces and tigers, elephants and jewels " --
"Day cursed by the stars " --
Most complex divorce in history --
"We will always remain brothers" --
While the world slept --
"O lovely dawn of freedom" --
"Our people have gone mad" --
Greatest migration in history --
"Kashmir --
only Kashmir!" --
Two Brahmans from Poona --
"Let Gandhi die" --
Vengeance of Mandalas Pahwa --
"We must get Gandhi before the police get us" --
Second crucifixion.

A detailed narrative of the thirteen months leading to the independence of the Indian subcontinent in February 1948, centering on major and minor figures and on the social and personal upheavals attendant on independence and partition.