Shameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India / Stanley Wolpert.

By:

Wolpert, Stanley A, 1927-

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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xii, 238 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

0195151984 (alk. paper)
9780195151985

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DDC classification:

954.03/59 22

LOC classification:

DS480.45 .W55 2006

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Contents:

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 -- 7. Lord Mountbatten's last Chukka, December 1946-June 1947 -- 8. Partitioned transfer of power, June-August 1947 -- 9. Freedom's wooden loaf, September-October 1947 -- 10. Indo-Pak war over Kashmir, October 1947-July 1948.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	PIPS Library	NFIC	954.0359 WOL-S 615 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	615

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.

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