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Shameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India / Stanley Wolpert.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: xii, 238 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0195151984 (alk. paper)
- 9780195151985
- 954.03/59 22
- DS480.45 .W55 2006
Contents:
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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SAIACS Archives Room | Frykenberg Collection | ARCH FRBC 954.03 W866S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 045048 |
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| ARCH FRBC 954.03 A very ingenious man, Claude Martin in early colonial India / | ARCH FRBC 954.03 Land and sovereignty in India : | ARCH FRBC 954.03 History of India and of the frontier states of Afghanistan, Nepal, and Burma / | ARCH FRBC 954.03 W866S Shameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India / | ARCH FRBC 954.03 M179C Class structure and economic growth. | ARCH FRBC 954.03 F533C A clash of cultures : | ARCH FRBC 954.03 S111N Nonviolence in Indian religious thought and political action / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
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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