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Shameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India / Stanley Wolpert.

by Wolpert, Stanley A., 1927-

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.

British -- India -- History -- 20th century.

India -- History -- Partition, 1947.

India -- History -- Quit India movement, 1942.

India -- History -- 20th century.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0635/2006040121-d.html

9780195151985 (alk. paper) :

0195151984 (alk. paper)

xii, 238 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

1. From the fall of Singapore to the failure of Cripps's mission, February-April 1942 -- 2. From Cripps's failure to the failure of the Congress party's "Quit India" movement, April-October 1942 -- 3. From Gandhi's fast through the first year of Wavell's viceroyalty, January 1943-July 1944 -- 4. Summit failures and cabinet obstacles, August 1944-July 1945 -- 5. From the end of World War II through the cabinet mission, August 1945-June 1946 -- 6. The interim government, June-December 1946 -- 7. Lord Mountbatten's last Chukka, December 1946-June 1947 -- 8. Partitioned transfer of power, June-August 1947 -- 9. Freedom's wooden loaf, September-October 1947 -- 10. Indo-Pak war over Kashmir, October 1947-July 1948.

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