TY - BOOK AU - Wolpert, Stanley TI - Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India SN - 0195474384 (hbk) U1 - 954.0359 PY - 2006/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - British India History 20th Century - History N1 - 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 ER -