The shadow of the great game
Subtitle: the untold story of India's partition
By: Narendra Singh Sarila
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India a joint venture with India Today Group
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9788172235697; 9788172238742
Subjects: History
Other titles: Untold story of India's partition
Description: "The partition of India continues to make the headlines with new facts emerging even today, six decades later. In this untold story of India's partition, Narendra Singh Sarila unearths documents which bring to light the hitherto unexplored link between the partition and British fears about the USSR gaining control of the oil wells of the Middle East, and how the British used religion as a political tool in pursuit of the great game against the Soviet Union. While focusing on the role of several prominent political figures of the era, he also brings out little-known facts about the pressure the US exerted on Britain to grant India her independence. This timely volume offers a radical reassessment of a key moment in the history of the Indian subcontinent."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The great game; title: The Anglo-Muslim League alliance; title: The Pakistan scheme and Jinnah; title: The Churchill-Roosevelt clash over India; title: The Mahatma's fury; title: India, the UK and the USA; title: Wavell plays the great game; title: Attlee's "smoke screens"; title: Nehru in the saddle; title: Mountbatten's counsellor; title: The end game of empire; title: The Kashmir imbroglio I: Gilgit and Poonch; title: The Kashmir imbroglio II: at the UN; title: Postscript.