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Shameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India /
Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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| 520 | |a Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century. Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Shameful Flight provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Stanley Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian histo | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a SHAMEFUL FLIGHT: The Last Years of the British Empire in India; Introduction; 1 From the Fall of Singapore to the Failure of Cripps's Mission, February-April 1942; 2 From Cripps's Failure to the Failure of the Congress Party's "Quit India" Movement, April-October 1942; 3 From Gandhi's Fast through the First Year of Wavell's Viceroyalty, January 1943-July 1944; 4 Summit Failures and Cabinet Obstacles, August 1944-July 1945; 5 From the End of World War II through the Cabinet Mission, August 1945-June 1946; 6 The Interim Government, June-December 1946. | |
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