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Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty
Lionel Carter
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Description for Mountbatten's Report on the Last Viceroyalty
Hardcover. Num Pages: 402 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 648.
This volume reproduces in full Mountbatten's own account of the last five months of British rule in India based on reports he sent to London at the time. Written with disarming frankness, we witness the failure of Mountbatten's initial attempts to secure independence on the basis of a united India. He then turned to some form of agreed partition and his eventual success was achieved after considerable feats of diplomacy. The figures of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and other key leaders loom large in this account. Mountbatten provides a valuable introductory historical survey and a chapter in which he ... Read more
This volume reproduces in full Mountbatten's own account of the last five months of British rule in India based on reports he sent to London at the time. Written with disarming frankness, we witness the failure of Mountbatten's initial attempts to secure independence on the basis of a united India. He then turned to some form of agreed partition and his eventual success was achieved after considerable feats of diplomacy. The figures of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and other key leaders loom large in this account. Mountbatten provides a valuable introductory historical survey and a chapter in which he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Manohar Publishers and Distributors India
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
Number of Pages
398
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9788173045165
SKU
V9788173045165
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About Lionel Carter
For more than ten years, Lionel Carter was a member of the team which produced the British Government's series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-47. From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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