For generations of English schoolboys, stuck in unheated classrooms, their eyes looking out on some forlorn, rain-swept heath, the names of its regiments -Skinner’s and Hodson’s and Probyn’s Horse, the “Piffers” of the Frontier Force Rifles, the First Sikhs, the Rajputana Rifles, the Guides Cavalry-were synonymous with glory and adventure. Ambedkar - one of the authors of the Constitution - also feared the fate of that community in an independent India and converted to Buddhism on his deathbed as an act of symbolic resistance to Hindu-majority rule. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. It begins with Louis Mountbatten’s installation as the Last Viceroy of India, and closely follows the negotiations between Mountbatten, Whitehall, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Mohandas Gandhi as they make the decision to partition India. In a nutshell, British Raj in India can be described as history's most grandiose accomplishment that had the most banal of origins.

When people talk about a book that deals with the freedom and partition of India, somehow this one comes to the mind of everybody. This JCB Prize for Literature long-listed gem is an unapologetic exploration of a city in transition, and its characters navigating love, loss, and societal upheavals. This book brought many incidents which have been buried deeply behind the pages of history into light. Meenu is full of writing prompts and she also aspire to become a published author one day or the other. It then continues with the chaos and bloodshed of the split, until ending with Gandhi’s assassination in 1948.This book gets high marks from many reviewers for its easy reading, and whilst there are some nice rhetorical flourishes, they become overused to the point of cliche (if I never see the words 'Queen Victoria's great-grandson' again it will be too soon). The authors have spoken about the Partition from an emotional perspective of a group of people who have been living as brothers and fought the British together for their freedom has to go separate ways after the Independence.

None of the seven was in even the remotest way prepared for the shock they encountered as they began to turn the pages of that document. A whole generation of young men who might have patrolled the Frontier, administered the lonely districts or galloped their polo ponies down the long maidans was left behind in Flanders fields. The authors misrepresent Indian women and their role in Indian society, the same way British empire had done so. The massacre of 680,000 members of that race that God had destined to govern and subdue in the trenches of World War I wrote an end to the legend of a certain India.This narrative is undeniably fascinating, however, it also places an almost exclusive emphasis on the “great men” of history. After all bureaucrats and military generals, and all those people are supposed to come from a royal background such as Mountbatten's and Churchill's. The subtitle alone makes it difficult for me to rate this book as more then one star but what you must understand is that this book was in no small part the last and greatest of Lord Louis Mountbatten's monuments to his tireless self promotion. It is fair to say that if India had not forced its freedom in 1947 the world would he a very different, and certainly even more troublesome, place than it is. Not surprising, then, that he comes across as a helpless and powerless spectator who could do nothing in the face of consummate madness, rioting, killing, raping, and plundering that swept the Indian society on the eve of Partition/independence and continued into many months.