 | - Book Title: Liberty or Death India's journey to Independence and division
- Author: Patrick French
- ISBN: 0002557711
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Year Published: 1997
- Our Normal Price: £36.30 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: Harper Collins 1997: first edition hardcover in dust jacket: approximately 6.25 x 9.5 inches tall: 466 pages including index: black and white maps and photographic illustrations. Synopsis: A scholarly analysis of events leading up to August 1947, when 350 years of British colonial rule gave way to the creation of India, West Pakistan and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). In his account Patrick French recounts the rise of India's freedom movements in the early part of the 20th century; the growth of Congress and the Muslim League; the events surrounding India's independence and partition; the political reasoning and mistakes; the interplay between Churchill, Wavell, Nero, Patel, Jinnah , Mountbatten, Gindhi; and the biggest mass migration in history. The Authors sources include newly declassified intelligence documents, family memories of Bihari refugees,and personal narratives. Condition/very clean and good overall /almost as new
- Condition: Collectable- Like New
- Dustcover: Yes
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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