Indian Summer The Secret History of the End of an Empire

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0771087411 . Gift notation on FFEP, otherwise near-fine. DJ flap has price blacked out. ; A bright, solid book, near-fine dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W photographs. ; 9.1 X 6.4 X 1.6 inches; 464 pages; "The last days of the British Raj. The end of empire. The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million people from the British Empire. It was one of the defining moments of world history, but it had been brought about by a tiny group of people. Among them were Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery Indian prime minister with radical plans for a socialist revolution; Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Muslim leader who would stop at nothing to establish the world’s first modern Islamic state; Mohandas Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation; and Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay. Within hours of the midnight chimes, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into anarchy and terror. " .