Freedom at Midnight

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It was a marvellously written and told of the events surrounding around the end of Britain's Indian empire and the creation of the states of India and Pakistan with panache and a wealth of glorious technicolor detail. When I read the first chapter's title, I assumed it to be ironic, never realizing that irony is something that would not be found in this 700 pages of pure garbage. Those interested in more recent and expansive views of the events leading up to and following 1947 should consider The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan. The book is over 500 pages long and covers only one year - there is no mistaking how high and how vast the stakes are as one works through it. Authors proudly mention Mountbatten's link to the Czars, one of the worst dictators in the history of the world, to establish his credibility.

This book is recommended for anyone interested in knowing our freedom fighters, freedom movement, the Raj, the Maharajas and the Mahatma very substantially, if not wholly or in full measure. None of the seven was in even the remotest way prepared for the shock they encountered as they began to turn the pages of that document. The authors have also pointed out the ground works done by the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi and the reasons and motive behind his assassination. With a heritage stretching back nearly 200 years, HarperCollins is one of the world's foremost English-language publishers, offering the best quality content right across the spectrum, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction to digital hymnbooks and pretty much everything in between. I opened the book and began to flip through the photographs: here was a picture of Gandhi dressed in his loincloth going to have tea with the King of England; there was a picture of a maharaja being measured against his weight in gold; and another of thousands of vultures devouring corpses in the street.They had done so with the simple objective of ensuring that the place they leave remain perpetually cancerous. If it was one sided the author duo wouldn’t have exhibited the flaws in the Radcliff Line, they wouldn’t have written about Mahatma Gandhi so highly. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

However the author cleverly forgets how they flared the differences between religions in India when it suited them. It's probably the most easily readable book on the subject, which explains the insane amount of popularity it had enjoyed and still enjoys. Over four prior book collaborations, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre honed a winning formula for accessible, page-turning popular histories: focus on a narrow, dramatic moment in time, using a restricted point of view.How Mountbatten have been appointed, the British Politics, all these kind of inside information about the crown made it easier to understand their mentality and the things that they were going through during the Independence. It is all here: maharajas and tigers, filth and squalor, extravagance and macabre sex, massacres, smells, starvation, cruelty and heroism.

Freedom at midnight gives a comprehensive account of the last year of the crown rule in India and the rigid dichotomy between the 2 major religions viz. The only Indian people worth praising are the corrupt Maharajas, who were put into place, forthe most part, by the Raj.The most astounding achievement of this book is that it rips out the aura of myths that have agglomerated around our political figures associated with the freedom movement, and humanizes each and every one of them, while being totally neutral, and being absolutely honest with the facts. Freedom at Midnight' is a history book equivalent of 'In Which We Serve' a piece in which Mountbatten is centre stage as the last viceroy creating the new states of India and Pakistan and absolving both himself and the UK for the nightmare of bloodshed that Britain created. The Muslims who wanted a separate Muslim state went to the newly formed Pakistan and the people who wanted to be in a secular state remained in India or came to India, as simple as that. We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts.