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Volumes have been written about the Indian Freedom Movement that began with Dadabhoy Nooroji, Gandhi, Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. The men who followed them: Tilak and Nehru, Azad and Patel now occupy their rightful place in history. Very little has been said about a third generation of patriots, men who had lit their torches at the parental flame. It was their mission to carry the torch safely over the stormy waters of transition, the terrible bloodletting of the ...
This book is an invaluable ringside view of the working of the partition council, the apex body that unravelled the physical partition of assets down to the last typewritten ribbon. The magnitude of this task has, to this day, not been fully appreciated. It has never occurred to anyone to ask how had it become possible to arrive at agreements on controversial issues of such great significance in the midst of great tension, violence and bitterness. These memoirs ...