{"product_id":"fateful-events-of-1947","title":"Fateful Events of 1947","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: M N Das\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Standard Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2004\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 492\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8187471166\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1947 saw the demise of the British Indian empire and the emergence of India as an independent country. It also witnessed dubious endeavour on part of the departing rulers in partitioning a sub-continent into India and Pakistan. Side by side, their deliberate game to balkanise India by keeping some princely States independent was too obvious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year was full of fateful events since the surgery of separation was an unusual phenomenon, causing immense blood letting. Compressed between the natural demand for national unity and an artificially engineered two-nation theory, the desperate British went in for a comprehensive conspiracy to take advantage of the continuing communal civil war for achieving their sinister design of Divine and Quit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book, constructed form original source-material including confidential documents of some of the British Viceroys and officers as well as some letters of Winston Charchill to Muhammad Ali Jinnah deals with the intricacies of the problems which over-whelmed the greatest men of India like inexorable forces of Time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEverybody played his role and played it well against internal and external forces to preserve the unity of a great nation and an ancient county. But, Time was against India's formidable patriots who had to suffer the agony of seeing their life's hopes disappear in disappointment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1947 will ever remain a turning point of history as the year of triumph and tragedies to be remembered by generation to come. This book will be of  immense use to students, scholars and general readers because it provides a detailed insight into the happenings of that eventful years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABBREVIATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003ePost-Mortem on an Alien Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003eDramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003eNotion of Division: Genesis to Fruition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003eDisintegration of Bengal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V\u003cbr\u003eBlood-Bath in the Land of Five Rivers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI\u003cbr\u003eBetrayal of the Frontier Province\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII\u003cbr\u003eDisappearance of Myriad Princes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII\u003cbr\u003eCommonwealth Compulsions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX\u003cbr\u003eSome Fantastic Hopes and Joyous Games\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX I\u003cbr\u003eProposal for the Immediate Transfer of Power, 3 June 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX II\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Independence Act, July 18, 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX III\u003cbr\u003eMemorandum on States Treaties and Paramountcy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"M N Das \/ Standard Publishers \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153663816048,"sku":"13267","price":66.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/13267.jpg?v=1793912260","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/fateful-events-of-1947","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}