Freedom at midnight

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A detailed narrative of the thirteen months leading to the independence of the Indian subcontinent in February 1948, centering on major and minor figures and on the social and personal upheavals attendant on independence and partition.

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Title Statements

Full title :Freedom at midnight / Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Vikas Pub. House
Place of Publication:New Delhi
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

Description:lx, 774 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9788125931645, 8125931643, 9788125931867, 8125931864
oclc:ocn757855006
LC Classification:DS480.84
Dewey Decimal:954.04

"A race destined to govern and subdue" -- "Walk alone, walk alone" -- "Leave India to god" -- Last tattoo for a dying Raj -- Old man andd his shattered dream -- Photograph section -- Precious little place -- Palaces and tigers, elephants and jewels " -- "Day cursed by the stars " -- Most complex divorce in history" -- "We will always remain brothers" -- "While the world slept" -- "O lovely dawn of freedom"-photograph section -- "Our people have gone mad" -- "Greatest migration in history" -- "Kashmir-only Kashmir!" -- Two Brahmans from Poona -- "Let Gandhi die" -- Vengeance of Mandalas Pahwa -- "We must get Gandhi before the police get us" -- Second crucifixion -- Epilogue -- What the became -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Photographic credits -- Index.

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Gandhi,, Mahatma History Inde -- Histoire -- 1947- Inde -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19… India India -- History -- 1947- India -- Politics and government -- 194… Politics and government Since 1947