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Keeping the jewel in the crown : [Book] the British betrayal of India / Walter Reid

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Haryana, India : Penguin Random House India, 2016Description: x, 288 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780670089468 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.035 23
LOC classification:
  • DS480.45 .R435 2016
Other classification:
  • 954.035
Contents:
Note continued: Wavell under Attlee -- 44.The Last Viceroy -- 45.Mountbatten's Instructions -- 46.The View from Whitehall -- 47.The Princely States -- 48.The Final Plan -- 49.Commonwealth and Independence -- 50.Endgame -- Drawing Lines on the Map -- Last Days -- After the Awards -- 51.Conclusion
Note continued: 19.Confusion within the Conservative Party -- Baldwin and the St George's Election -- Pressure Groups -- 20.Looking Behind Churchill's Words -- 21.The Background to the India Bill: Civil War in the Conservative Party -- 22.Churchill and the Privileges Committee -- 23.The Legislation -- 24.After the Act -- 25.Rab Butler -- 26.Linlithgow: A New Viceroy for the New Act -- 27.Indian Politics -- 28.Policy and the War -- 29.Amery -- 30.Military Developments -- 31.Stafford Cripps -- Mission One (1939) -- Moscow (1940 -- 42) -- 32.Preparation for the Mission of 1942 -- 33.Cripps in India -- Deadlock -- American Influence -- 34.Failure of the Mission -- 35.Quit India -- 36.Government Policy Post-Cripps -- 37.Wavell -- 38.Wavell as Viceroy -- 39.The Simla Conference -- 40.A New World -- Collapse of Morale -- The Red Peril -- Official Thinking after the Second World War -- 41.India in 1945 -- 42.The Cabinet Mission -- 43.After the Failure of the Mission --
Note continued: Wavell under Attlee -- 44.The Last Viceroy -- 45.Mountbatten's Instructions -- 46.The View from Whitehall -- 47.The Princely States -- 48.The Final Plan -- 49.Commonwealth and Independence -- 50.Endgame -- Drawing Lines on the Map -- Last Days -- After the Awards -- 51.Conclusion
Summary: "When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With reference to a vast amount of documentary material, from private letters to public records and state papers, he shows how Britain held back political progress in India for as long as possible - a policy which led to unimaginable chaos and suffering when independence was granted, and which created a legacy of hatred and distrust that continues to this day"-- Publisher description.
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Note continued: Wavell under Attlee -- 44.The Last Viceroy -- 45.Mountbatten's Instructions -- 46.The View from Whitehall -- 47.The Princely States -- 48.The Final Plan -- 49.Commonwealth and Independence -- 50.Endgame -- Drawing Lines on the Map -- Last Days -- After the Awards -- 51.Conclusion

Note continued: 19.Confusion within the Conservative Party -- Baldwin and the St George's Election -- Pressure Groups -- 20.Looking Behind Churchill's Words -- 21.The Background to the India Bill: Civil War in the Conservative Party -- 22.Churchill and the Privileges Committee -- 23.The Legislation -- 24.After the Act -- 25.Rab Butler -- 26.Linlithgow: A New Viceroy for the New Act -- 27.Indian Politics -- 28.Policy and the War -- 29.Amery -- 30.Military Developments -- 31.Stafford Cripps -- Mission One (1939) -- Moscow (1940 -- 42) -- 32.Preparation for the Mission of 1942 -- 33.Cripps in India -- Deadlock -- American Influence -- 34.Failure of the Mission -- 35.Quit India -- 36.Government Policy Post-Cripps -- 37.Wavell -- 38.Wavell as Viceroy -- 39.The Simla Conference -- 40.A New World -- Collapse of Morale -- The Red Peril -- Official Thinking after the Second World War -- 41.India in 1945 -- 42.The Cabinet Mission -- 43.After the Failure of the Mission --

Note continued: Wavell under Attlee -- 44.The Last Viceroy -- 45.Mountbatten's Instructions -- 46.The View from Whitehall -- 47.The Princely States -- 48.The Final Plan -- 49.Commonwealth and Independence -- 50.Endgame -- Drawing Lines on the Map -- Last Days -- After the Awards -- 51.Conclusion

"When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With reference to a vast amount of documentary material, from private letters to public records and state papers, he shows how Britain held back political progress in India for as long as possible - a policy which led to unimaginable chaos and suffering when independence was granted, and which created a legacy of hatred and distrust that continues to this day"-- Publisher description.

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