THE PROUDEST DAY
Subtitle: INDIA'S LONG ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE
Publisher: PIMLICO
Published: 1998
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780712661423
First sentence: The movement towards Indian independence began as soon as the British took power in the middle of the eighteenth century, and it was started not by the Indians, but by the British themselves.