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At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain finally granted independence to the
peoples of India, without a single shot being fired in anger. Bathed in the
rosy glow of retrospect, the birth of modern India and Pakistan has come to be
regarded in the west as a great achievement, "the proudest day in Britain's
history", as predicted by Lord Macauley in 1835. But how justified is the
romantic popular image? Was Indian independence a noble gesture by a benevolent
colonial power or was freedom wrested from the British by Indian nationalists
after more than a quarter of a century of bitter struggle? "The Proudest Day"
examines whether the winning of freedom in India was a triumph or a
tragedy. First paperback edition of a hardback, previously published in 1997 by
Cape. An account of the events leading up to Indian independence at midnight on
14 August 1947, the 'proudest day in Britain's history', as predicted by Lord
Macauley in 1835. The authors question the popular romantic image of the event
and attempt to set the record straight.
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