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Author : O. P. Ralhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents on Punjab: Last days of the Raj (1943-1947) written by O. P. Ralhan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Marston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521899753
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Indian Army and the End of the Raj written by Daniel Marston and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India in the run-up to Partition. Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184007159
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Raj at War written by Yasmin Khan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two and a half million Indians volunteered in the Second World War. Their stories had been lost and silenced, until now. Award-winning historian Yasmin Khan marshals interviews, newspaper reports and unseen archival material to tell the forgotten story of India’s role in the Second World War. We meet soldiers, sailors and non-combatants – prostitutes, nurses, cooks, peasants – whose lives were upended by a war far, far away. From a small Muslim boy arrested for singing anti-recruitment songs, to cooks preparing chapattis on army boats, to a family listening to illicit German radio broadcasts, and a love letter from the first Indian soldier to receive the Victoria Cross, Khan makes us feel and hear the lost voices of a people involved in a war that wasn’t of their choosing. Dramatizing a cataclysm that transformed the subcontinent and led to its independence, The Raj at War undeniably inserts South Asia back into World War II history and confirms that the Empire – and all its subjects – formed both the heart and limbs of Britain’s war efforts and eventual victory.
Author : General Lord Hastings Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782893725
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs Of Lord Ismay written by General Lord Hastings Ismay KG GCB CH DSO PC and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This memoir is a masterly narrative by a participant at the very centre of British decision-making during the entire Second World War. Major General ‘Pug’ Ismay was appointed secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence in July 1938 and from there became, in May 1940, Churchill’s senior military assistant and an additional member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. Officially, his role was the leadership of the office of the minister of defence. Churchill was by then both prime minister and minister of defence and continued in these twin roles throughout the war. Ismay saw himself as Churchill’s ‘agent’ and was once flippantly described as his ‘Eminence Khaki’. Ismay was in a unique position to observe Churchill, who became a close confidante. Ismay has been praised by several highly-placed sources for his achievements in diplomacy and man-management during his Army service. His tact and charm kept the potential friction between the chiefs-of-staff and their political masters entirely controlled. His ability to ride the sometimes wild swings in Churchill’s temperament, yet still bring to committees the correct interpretation and thrust of Churchill’s views, was highly valued. This book is a masterpiece of prose. It is a remarkable product of its time and is in no way self-indulgent. It lacks military jargon and acronyms. It is full of interesting and humorous anecdotes and provides an excellent account of many aspects of Churchill’s non-public persona. It contains a single monotone plate of the author as well as three organisational diagrams and four maps. Not only military historians, but anyone with an interest in British history from the 1920s to the 1950s, would be greatly satisfied with it.”—Bruce Short RUSI Journal
Author : Ian Copland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894364
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 written by Ian Copland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.
Author : O. P. Ralhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents on Punjab: Political movements (1907-1920) written by O. P. Ralhan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lionel Knight
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285270
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Britain in India, 18581947 written by Lionel Knight and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ seeks to trace the last 90 years of British rule in the light of modern historical debates. The volume examines the ambiguities of British rule that followed from the post-Mutiny settlement: the tensions between an authoritarian bureaucracy and the promise of a liberal vision of the future, and between imperial interests and the growing coordination of Indian aspirations for self-rule. The volume analyses these tensions with reference to contemporary historical debates, and traces them through changing international relations and world wars to Indian independence and partition in 1947.
Author : Mihir Bose
Publisher : Grice Chapman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780954572648
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Raj, Secrets, Revolution written by Mihir Bose and published by Grice Chapman Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salahuddin Ahmed
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176484695
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Bangladesh written by Salahuddin Ahmed and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. P. H.
Author : W. David McIntyre
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907803
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Commonwealth of Nations written by W. David McIntyre and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a professor of history at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, presents a comprehensive survey of Commonwealth history from the time of soul-searching about the future of the British Empire, which marked the middle years of Queen Victoria’s reign, to the year when Britain decided to enter the European Community. The account is divided in three periods - 1869 to 1917, 1917 to 1941, and 1942 to 1971. Within each period a four-fold thematic divisions is followed: Dominions, Indian Empire, crown colonies, and protectorates.
Author : O. P. Ralhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents on Punjab: Muslim politics written by O. P. Ralhan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derek Sumeray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747809402
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book London Plaques written by Derek Sumeray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's buildings are dotted with commemorative plaques. Many are the famous blue plaques, indicating where a famous person was born, lived, stayed, or if a significant event took place there, or an earlier use of the site. This book is a comprehensive gazetteer of all of London's plaques. Using Derek Sumeray's classic book as a basis, this thoroughly revised new edition arranges plaques alphabetically by area, providing a text that is linked to London's geography and, therefore, of greater use to a resident or visitor wanting to explore the famous people and events commemorated in that area.
Author : John Zubrzycki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1805260537
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Dethroned written by John Zubrzycki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before New Delhi's Chamber of Princes to deliver the most important speech of his career. He had just three weeks to convince over 550 sovereign princely states--some tiny, some the size of Britain--to become part of a free India. Once Britain's most faithful allies, the princes could choose between joining India or Pakistan, or declaring independence. This is a saga of intrigue, brinkmanship and broken promises, wrought by Mountbatten and two of independent India's founding fathers: the country's most senior civil servant, V.P. Menon, and Congress strongman Vallabhbhai Patel. What India's architects described as a "bloodless revolution" was anything but, as violence engulfed Kashmir and Indian troops crushed Hyderabad's dreams of independence. Most princes accepted the inevitable, exchanging their power for guarantees of privileges and titles in perpetuity. But these dynasties were still led to extinction--not by the sword, but by political expediency--leaving them with little more than fading memories of a glorified past.
Author : Mushirul Hasan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429721218
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Legacy Of A Divided Nation written by Mushirul Hasan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition and its aftermath, of the values which India's Muslims should cherish and of the national priorities they should promote. It provides the reference-point for understanding India's Partition and its legacy.
Author : O. P. Ralhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents on Punjab: Rule of martial law written by O. P. Ralhan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : O. P. Ralhan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents on Punjab: Society written by O. P. Ralhan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141987149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Inglorious Empire written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
