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The authors interviewed many who were there during the events, including a focus on Lord Mountbatten of Burma. One the one hand, it will give the reader a profound sense of the tragedy of Indian partition upon independence in 1947.If one wants to read an objective and impartial analysis of the events that led to Indian independence and the creation of Pakistan,one should stay away from this book. Today Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, has inherited that great office, Prime Minister of what was once the vastest democracy on earth. Listner पत्रिका में छपा था, उसमे माउंटबैटन ने खुद ही अपनी बड़ाई हाँकी है कि कैसे देश को आज़ादी के बाद उन्होंने कैसे टेक ओवर किया था नेहरू एवम पटेल की मिन्नतों पर। वाह! Also covered in detail are the events leading to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as the life and motives of Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah. In Rawalpindi, the Second Cavalry gave an enormous barakama “good luck” banquet, to their former comrades.

Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. Ten million Indians were essentially nomads, engaged in such hereditary occupations as snake charmers, fortunetellers, jugglers, well-diggers, magicians, tightrope walkers, herb vendors-which kept them constantly moving from village to village. The India represented by those men and women would be a nation of 275 million Hindus (70 million of them, a population almost twice the size of France, Untouchables); 50 million Moslems; seven million Christians; six million Sikhs; 100,000 Parsis; and 24,000 Jews, whose forebears had fled the destruction of Solomon’s Temple during the Babylonian exile. It then continues with the chaos and bloodshed of the split, until ending with Gandhi’s assassination in 1948. The facts are: by the end of the World War 11 the whole Indian Raj principle was no longer tenable; the Gandhi charisma and the Nehru logic, the mobilization of an enormous population into satyagroha, or passive resistance, could no longer be controlled by the spent force of the Empire, and, in fact, the game was up.

Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. The authors paint the aristocratic, pompous, arrogant fat man in a light that far exceeds any propaganda papers.