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The Shadow Of The Great Game The Untold Story Of India's Partition

By Narendra Singh Sarila

Book information

Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2005
ISBN
8172238746, 9788172238742
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
207 MB (216779927 bytes)
Pages
227\227
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Historians and political analysts have not paid enough attention to the crucial link between Indias partition and British fears about the USSR gaining control of Central Asia. Realizing that Indian nationalists would not play the Great Game against the Soviet Union, the British settled for those willing to do so, using Islam as a political tool in pursuit of their objectives. How this operation was conceived and carried out forms the theme of this untold story of India's partition.Narendra Singh Sarila unearths top-secret documents which throw new light on several prominent political figures of the era, while bringing out little-known facts about the pressure that the US exerted on Britain to grant India her independence.The author also traces the roots of the present Kashmir imbroglio in this fascinating account.

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