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| Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Publication Date: 02/07/2007 |
| Format: Hardback |
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The severing of a sub-continent
The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire. A defining moment of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be; Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay.
Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan descended into anarchy and terror. Nehru, Gandhi and the Mountbattens struggled with public and private turmoil while their dreams of freedom and democracy turned to chaos and bloodshed.
With wit and insight, this brilliant debut work depicts this epic sweep of events and reveals the secrets of the world stage’s most powerful players: the Cold War conspiracies, the private deals, and the intense and clandestine love affair between the last viceroy’s wife and the first prime minister of free India.
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