As you read, you'll find a great deal is written about Mahatma Gandhi, the "dejected bird" of Mountbatten, Nehru, the handsome Indian who is incredibly fascinated by the Mountbattens, Jinnah, the only guy who is shown in the bad light, and Patel, well.

The wholly intransigeant skeleton at the feast was, of course, Mohammed Ali Jinnah of the Muslim League, inflexibly demanding the separatist theocratic State of Pakistan, he who “had a difficulty of Pakista for every solution. Although we know something of the innumerable tragedies during a single year covered in this book, the author’s still managed to build up a lot of suspense in this powerful story. This account of the events leading up to partition, and the subsequent creation of a new nation, holds nothing back. It is also dearly too late to hope that it can survive and grow uncrippled, because what happened to Mrs.She is a frustrated soul and confronts her husband Das(Hakkim Shahjahan) that she is looking for sexu.

Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). The authors misrepresent Indian women and their role in Indian society, the same way British empire had done so.This narrative is undeniably fascinating, however, it also places an almost exclusive emphasis on the “great men” of history. The authors do it ingeniously through a multitude of character‐sketches, a perfectly acceptable method since the whole imbroglio was as much a matter of character as of principle. Another fascinating aspect of this book is its characterization of Mahatma Gandhi, so real yet surreal at times. Few of the people in the hall could talk to each other in their native language; their only common tongue was the English of the colonizers, whose rule was about to end. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.

Attlee whose reform would go on to prove to be fruitful for England, is shown as just another weak and meek bureaucrat.These fables have a tendency to sweep history in very broad strokes, ignoring much and instead forcing us into believing generalised facts such as those about all Britishers/foreigners being diabolic, all freedom fighters being pious to the hilt and many others. If you want to read something that really gets to the heart of the enormous complexities of British rule in India, the Indian liberation movement, the key characters on all sides, and the results of partition (including present day legacies): read Michael French's excellent 'Liberty or Death'.