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At midnight on 14 August 1947 Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end.
Journeying across India Bangladesh and Pakistan Patrick French brings to life a cast of characters including spies idealists freedom fighters and politicians from Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi. The result is a compelling story of deal-making missed opportunities hope and tragedy.
'A fine lucid book ... vividly drawn with novel-like touches'
Hanif Kureshi
'Extraordinarily able and nuanced ... a brilliant book on an important subject ... French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work'
Herald
'Beautifully written'
Sunday Times
'French is a natural storyteller ... a delightful tale of intrigue ham-handedness and just plain blundering'
India Today
Patrick French is the author of India: A Portrait Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize Tibet Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize.
At midnight on 14 August 1947 Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south and Britain's role as an imperial power came to an end.
Journeying across India Bangladesh and Pakistan Patrick French brings to life a cast of characters including spies idealists freedom fighters and politicians from Winston Churchill to Mahatma Gandhi. The result is a compelling story of deal-making missed opportunities hope and tragedy.
'A fine lucid book ... vividly drawn with novel-like touches'
Hanif Kureshi
'Extraordinarily able and nuanced ... a brilliant book on an important subject ... French is the most impressive Western historian of modern India currently at work'
Herald
'Beautifully written'
Sunday Times
'French is a natural storyteller ... a delightful tale of intrigue ham-handedness and just plain blundering'
India Today
Patrick French is the author of India: A Portrait Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer which won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Royal Society of Literature W. H. Heinemann Prize Tibet Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hawthornden Prize.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Regionalgeschichte |
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780241950401 |
| ISBN-10: | 0241950406 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | French, Patrick |
| Hersteller: | Penguin |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Ansata, ein Label der Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, Neumarkter Str. 28, D-81673 München, kundenservice@penguinrandomhouse.de |
| Maße: | 198 x 129 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Patrick French |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 27.01.2011 |
| Gewicht: | 0,606 kg |
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