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100 1 _aWolpert, Stanley A.,
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245 1 0 _aShameful flight : the last years of the British Empire in India /
_cStanley Wolpert.
260 _aOxford ;
_aNew York :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2006.
300 _axii, 238 p., [16] p. of plates :
_c24 cm.
505 0 _a1. 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.
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651 0 _aIndia
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651 0 _aIndia
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651 0 _aIndia
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