Keeping the Jewel in the Crown

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Keeping the Jewel in the Crown
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Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Total Pages : 459
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ISBN-10 : 9780857909008
ISBN-13 : 0857909002
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Book Synopsis Keeping the Jewel in the Crown by : Walter Reid

Book excerpt: In 1947, when India achieved independence, Britain portrayed the transfer of power as the outcome of decades, even centuries, of responsible planning – the honourable discharge of an historic responsibility. That view has never been seriously challenged in Britain. But this book shows that the official narrative is a travesty of what really happened. Drawing on the documentary evidence – letters, diaries, state papers – Walter Reid reveals how Britain selfishly deceived and prevaricated in order to arrest political progress in India for as long as possible – a shameful passage in British imperial policy which led to tragedy and untold suffering when independence finally became inevitable.


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The Booker Prize winner. “[One of] the top 10 books about the British in India . . . the book is a joy and makes an elegiac farewell to the Raj.” —Ferdina