インドにおける大英帝国の最後<br>Shameful Flight : The Last Years of the British Empire in India

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インドにおける大英帝国の最後
Shameful Flight : The Last Years of the British Empire in India

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.／サイズ 24 illus.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780195151985
  • DDC分類 954.0359

基本説明

Augues that the hasty departure of the British from the subcontinent laid the groundwork for the continuing violence between India and Pakistan.

Full Description

Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century.
Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Shameful Flight provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Stanley Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian history, paints memorable portraits of all the key participants, including Gandhi, Churchill, Attlee, Nehru, and Jinnah, with special focus on British viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten. Wolpert places the blame for the catastrophe largely on Mountbatten, the flamboyant cousin of the king, who rushed the process of nationhood along at an absurd pace. The viceroy's worst blunder was the impetuous drawing of new border lines through the middle of Punjab and Bengal. Virtually everyone involved advised Mountbatten that to partition those provinces was a calamitous mistake that would unleash uncontrollable violence. Indeed, as Wolpert shows, civil unrest among Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs escalated as Independence Day approached, and when the new boundary lines were announced, arson, murder, and mayhem erupted. Partition uprooted over ten million people, 500,000 to a million of whom died in the ensuing inferno.
Here then is the dramatic story of a truly pivotal moment in the history of India, Pakistan, and Britain, an event that ignited fires of continuing political unrest that still burn in South Asia.

Contents

INTRODUCTION CH. 1 FROM THE FALL OF SINGAPORE TO THE FAILURE OF CRIPPS'S MISSION, FEBRUARY-APRIL 1942 CH. 2 FROM CRIPPS'S FAILURE TO THE FAILURE OF CONGRESS'S "QUIT INDIA," APRIL-OCTOBER 1942 CH. 3 FROM GANDHI'S FAST THROUGH THE FIRST YEAR OF WAVELL'S VICEROYALTY, JANUARY 1943-JULY 1944 CH. 4 SUMMIT FAILURES AND CABINET OBSTACLES, AUGUST 1944-JULY 1945 CH. 5 FROM THE END OF WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE CABINET MISSION, AUGUST 1945-JUNE 1946 CH. 6 THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT, JUNE-DECEMBER 1046 CH. 7 LORD MOUNTBATTEN'S LAST CHUKKA, APRIL-JUNE 1947 CH. 8 PARTITIONED TRANSFER OF POWER, AUGUST 1947 CH. 9 FREEDOM'S WOODEN LOAF, AUGUST-OCTOBER 1947 CH. 10 INDO-PAK WAR OVER KASHMIR, OCTOBER 1947-JULY 1948 EPILOGUE NOTES/ BIBLIOGRAPHY