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200 10$aShameful flight $ethe last years of the British Empire in India /$fStanley Wolpert
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006
215   $a1 online resource (258 p.)
225 1 $aOxford scholarship online
300   $aPreviously issued in print: 2006.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-231) and index.
327   $aSHAMEFUL FLIGHT: The Last Years of the British Empire in India; Introduction; 1 From the Fall of Singapore to the Failure of Cripps's Mission, February-April 1942; 2 From Cripps's Failure to the Failure of the Congress Party's "Quit India" Movement, April-October 1942; 3 From Gandhi's Fast through the First Year of Wavell's Viceroyalty, January 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-June 1946; 6 The Interim Government, June-December 1946
327   $a7 Lord Mountbatten's Last Chukka, December 1946-June 19478 Partitioned Transfer of Power, June-August 1947; 9 Freedom's Wooden Loaf, September-December 1947; 10 Indo-Pak War over Kashmir, October 1947-July 1948; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z
330 8 $aFocusing on the last half decade of the British in India, this book argues that the hasty departure of the British from the subcontinent laid the groundwork for the continuing violence between India and Pakistan. It tells about events that have been turning points in the history of India, Pakistan, and Britain.
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