Shameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India

Wolpert, Stanley 1927-2019 (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0195151984
ISBN: 9780195151985
Physical Description: print
xii, 238 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-231) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 7. Lord Mountbatten's last Chukka, December 1946-June 1947 -- 8. Partitioned transfer of power, June-August 1947 -- 9. Freedom's wooden loaf, September-October 1947 -- 10. Indo-Pak war over Kashmir, October 1947-July 1948.