The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition

A radical reassessment in British colonial history by the former ADC to the last Viceroy of British India is important, but Sarila s claim that current Islamic terrorism is partially rooted in Partition has wider implications. Historians have underestimated the role of British strategic interests: fears about the USSR s control of Middle Eastern oil wells and access to the Indian Ocean. New material on figures like Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell, and Nehru are offered.