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The Proudest Day, India's Long Road to Independence
by Read, Anthony and Fisher, David
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0393318982
- ISBN 13
- 9780393318982
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About This Item
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 1999. First paperback edition by this publisher. Softcover. Good Condition. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges all neat and clean Card cover corners slightly bumped And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety -- not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality.
The Proudest Day is a riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Anthony Read and David Fisher tell the whole epic story in compelling and colourful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier; their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants --Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah --who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years.
Meanwhile, a succession of British politicians and viceroys veered wildly between liberalism and repression until the Raj became a powder keg, wanting only a match. B & W photos
The Proudest Day is a riveting account of the end of the Raj, the most romantic of all the great empires. Anthony Read and David Fisher tell the whole epic story in compelling and colourful detail from its beginnings more than a century earlier; their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved, especially the three charismatic giants --Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah --who dominated the final, increasingly bitter thirty years.
Meanwhile, a succession of British politicians and viceroys veered wildly between liberalism and repression until the Raj became a powder keg, wanting only a match. B & W photos
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55361
- Title
- The Proudest Day, India's Long Road to Independence
- Author
- Read, Anthony and Fisher, David
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First paperback edition by this publisher
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0393318982
- ISBN 13
- 9780393318982
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Pages
- 565
- Keywords
- India India, Independence, Raj, Muslims, Hindus
- X weight
- 800.000 kg
- Size
- Octavo (standard book size)
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