Freedom at Midnight

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And amused I was with the arrogance with which the prose is written and the misrepresentation of history has been perpetrated through these pages. Also when the Punjab was split between India and Pakistan, there was the steady stream of 5 million Hindus and Sikh refugees travelling south mostly on foot and another approximately 5 million Moslems attempting to go north into Pakistan. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. It was an international bestseller and any readers from outside the subcontinent are likely to get a very misleading picture.

When people talk about a book that deals with the freedom and partition of India, somehow this one comes to the mind of everybody. In Rawalpindi, the Second Cavalry gave an enormous barakama “good luck” banquet, to their former comrades. She is a frustrated soul and confronts her husband Das(Hakkim Shahjahan) that she is looking for sexual freedom.How Mountbatten have been appointed, the British Politics, all these kind of inside information about the crown made it easier to understand their mentality and the things that they were going through during the Independence. Meenu is full of writing prompts and she also aspire to become a published author one day or the other.

Despite this focus on the agency of the great men, the primary mechanism which forces history forward in the book is destiny or fate. We didn't; we loaded it onto Sir Stafford Cripps and Lord Mountbatten, which was the next best thing. This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, heart-broken by the tragedy of the country's division; of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet led 45 million Muslims to nationhood; of Gandhi, who stirred a subcontinent without raising his voice; of the last viceroy, Mountbatten, beseeched by the leaders of an independent India to take back the powers he'd just passed to them.

It begins with Louis Mountbatten’s installation as the Last Viceroy of India, and closely follows the negotiations between Mountbatten, Whitehall, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Mohandas Gandhi as they make the decision to partition India. Page after page, it summarized in its dull bureaucratic jargon the appalling implications of their decision. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

Written by an American and another French "journalist," yet it reads like Dan Brown(with better grasp on the English language). India history, india, travel) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. Instead, they are depicted as contending with historical inevitabilities far more powerful than themselves.Today Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, has inherited that great office, Prime Minister of what was once the vastest democracy on earth. spirits of some of the ruthless war criminals, and human rights violators of the British Empire would find solace in reading this book. The authors misrepresent Indian women and their role in Indian society, the same way British empire had done so. Ten million Indians were essentially nomads, engaged in such hereditary occupations as snake charmers, fortunetellers, jugglers, well-diggers, magicians, tightrope walkers, herb vendors-which kept them constantly moving from village to village. No part of this Blog can be reproduced in any manner without prior permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other non commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

It then continues with the chaos and bloodshed of the split, until ending with Gandhi’s assassination in 1948. Dealing with any of the monumental labors of the Collins‐Lapierre firm is a singular difficulty: they are at the same time so very good and so very had. This book brought many incidents which have been buried deeply behind the pages of history into light.

This book comes off as portraying the functioning and benevolent British Raj that sadly and unfortunately had to go due to extenuating circumstances. Above all, it renders one of the bloodiest mismanagements in the history of mankind in such sepia-tinted prose that things look really romantic, or atmost tragic.