Wolpert, Stanley

Shameful Flight : The Last Years of the British Empire in India / Stanley Wolperts - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. - 218 p.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Participants
Introduction

1. From the Fall of Singapore to the Failure of Cripps' Mission, Feb-April, 1942.

2. From Cripps's Failure on the Failure of the Congress Party's "Quit India" Movement, April-Oct, 1942.

3. From Gandhi'sFast through the First Year of Wavell's Vice-royalty, Jan 1943-July 1944.

4. Summit Failures and Cabinet Obstacles, August 1944 - July 1945.

5. From the End of World War-II through the Cabinet Mission, August 1945 - July 1946.

6. The Interim Government, June - December, 1946.

7. Lord Mountbatten's Last Chukka, Dec 1946 - June 1947.

8. Partitioned Transfer of Power June-August, 1947.

9. Freedom's Wooden Loaf, Sept - Oct, 1947.

10. Indo-Pak War over Kashmir, Oct 1947 - July 1948.

Notes
Bibliography
Index


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