num_pages: 320
description: A radical reassessment in British colonial history by the former ADC to the last Viceroy of British India is important, but Sarila’s claim that current Islamic terrorism is partially rooted in Partition has wider implications. Historians have underestimated the role of British strategic fears about the USSR’s control of Middle Eastern oil wells and access to the Indian Ocean. New material on figures like Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell, and Nehru are offered.
language: English
title: The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition
titlecomplete: The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition
genres: History, India, Asia, Nonfiction, Pakistan, Politics
ratings_count: 258
publisher: Carroll & Graf