Freedom at midnight / Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
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Freedom at midnight / Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre.
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Publication Date:
1975
Publication Information:
New York : Simon and Schuster,
Physical Description:
532 p. : ill.
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliography and index.
Summary:
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. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen—but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war. Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.
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English
