But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. With an instinct for drama and a skill in narration, the authors take the reader from Whitehall to Delhi, to Calcutta, to Lahore, to Pula, to the villages of the Punjab and Bengal their hold on the reader never falters.' - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH About the Author:īook Description Paperback. It will give more non-Indians more knowledge of the vast circumstances surrounding the birth of India than anything previously written. 'A heroic tale that has not been told a tenth as, well before. illuminated in scenes like a pageant.' - TIME "I defy a reader to put the book down once Robinson has got him into the air." Paul Fussell, NEW REPUBLIC 'The song of India. It is a work of scholarship, of investigation, research and of significance.' JAMES CAMERON, NEW YORK TIMES The dialogue is convincing, the story is emotionally moving and it contains some of the best descriptions of battle I've read." - TIME OUT Having been there most of the time in question, I can vouch for the accuracy of its general mood. 'There is no single passage in I this profoundly researched book that one could actually fault.
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