Freedom at Midnight

On 14 August 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom was partition and war, riot and murder. In this reconstruction, Collins and Lapierre recount the eclipse of the British Raj and examine the roles enacted by, among others, Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Mountbatten in its violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.

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• India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
• Is Paris Burning?
• The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of Indias Partition
• Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
• The Discovery of India
• Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
• India: A History. Revised and Updated
• The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, New Edition
• Midnight's Children: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)