Freedom at Midnight

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When it is not engaging however, it is not so because bad narration but because the subject becomes so brutal and horrifying. Well, be rest assured that this book will end up ripping out each of those notions and burning them to cinders. When I read the first chapter's title, I assumed it to be ironic, never realizing that irony is something that would not be found in this 700 pages of pure garbage. Collins accepted the offer and was soon picked up by Newsweek to be their correspondent in the Middle East.

The riot that followed, how Lord Mountbatten helped at the time of crises on the insistence of Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhai Patel even after giving Independence to India and Pakistan was something I only have heard from word of mouth. Readers in Pakistan may find it particularly off-putting as it gives a very negative portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and essentially is an argument against partition. This book gets high marks from many reviewers for its easy reading, and whilst there are some nice rhetorical flourishes, they become overused to the point of cliche (if I never see the words 'Queen Victoria's great-grandson' again it will be too soon). It is all here: maharajas and tigers, filth and squalor, extravagance and macabre sex, massacres, smells, starvation, cruelty and heroism. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.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. Murder and arson were so senseless, so chaotic in nature that to one British police officer in Lahore it seemed “like a city committing suicide.

Those of us on the scene at the time wondered if human ingenuity could possibly cope, and whether we should not, as the Muslims proposed, chuck the whole political onus back onto God. It was all new to me, it was fascinating, fun and relevant - after all at that time Indira Ghandi was prime minister of India (she had no connection with Ghandi but was the daughter of Nehru - I wonder is that all meaningless to anyone reading this, it is amazing as you get older how so many events and people that seemed important have dwindled into obscurity) the world created by the events of 1947 was still very much with us. The Reminiscences of The Nehru Age में इस घटना का जिक्र करते हुए लिखा है कि वी पी मेनन ने 4 सितम्बर 1947 को शिमला फोन किया तो था लेकिन नेहरू और पटेल को संज्ञान में न लेते हुए। यह भी लिखा है कि वी पी मेनन नेहरू के शुरुआती विरोधियों में से एक थे। खैर, फोन करने के बाद अलसुबह वह मथाई से मिले और निवेदन किया कि किसी तरह नेहरू को राजी करें। नेहरू और पटेल दोनों वी पी मेनन से इस बात पर सख्त नाराज थे, लेकिन अब चूंकि गवर्नर जनरल शिमला से चल चुके थे तो उनको दिल्ली पहुँचते ही उन्हें असमंजस में डालना उचित नही था। इस प्रकार तीनो के सम्मिलित प्रयास से प्रशाषनिक गतिविधियों में तेजी आई- Freedom at Midnight में इसका अकेला श्रेय लॉर्ड माउंटबैटन को देना कहां तक उचित है? This is a highly readable look at one pivotal year in the history of India: 1947, the year that marked the end of British rule and the partition of the subcontinent into two new nations, India and Pakistan.The subtitle alone makes it difficult for me to rate this book as more then one star but what you must understand is that this book was in no small part the last and greatest of Lord Louis Mountbatten's monuments to his tireless self promotion.

Dieser Artikel weist folgende Merkmale auf: Altersentsprechend nachgedunkelte/saubere Seiten in fester Bindung. It was an international bestseller and any readers from outside the subcontinent are likely to get a very misleading picture. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. While Winston Churchill, the arch‐imperialist, remained in power, he impeded every move and indeed betrayed his well‐intentioned Viceroy Wavell.The book was an international bestseller and achieved enormous acclaim in the United States, Italy, Spain, and France.