Loved each and every part of this book. I will definitely recommend this book to cultural, india lovers. Your Rating:. Your Comment:. Read Online Download. Hot Free as in Freedom 2. Great book, Freedom at Midnight pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone.
This is the India of Jawaharlal Nehru, heart-broken by the tragedy of the country's division; of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a Moslem who drank, ate pork and rarely entered a mosque, yet led 45 million Muslims to nationhood; of Gandhi, who stirred a subcontinent without raising his voice; of the last viceroy, Mountbatten, beseeched by the leaders of an independent India to take back the powers he'd just passed to them.
Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. What is Scribd? Since the authors are neither from India, Pakistan or Britain their view point has been factual and neutral all along on the basis of their 3 years of research in India and Pakistan.
There is in some sense, a simplification of their actions and intent. While serving in the public affairs office of the Allied Headquarters in Paris, fromhe met Dominique Lapierre with whom he would write several best-sellers over 43 years. Mahatma Gandhi gets good coverage as he deserves. For the most part the narration is very engaging, urging the readers to read on. However the author does make several incorrect claims. Honestly speaking, not even the most lauding words of mine can do justic Very rarely comes a defining moment that changes history to the extent of being un-recognizable and very rarely comes a book that changes your life, perceptions and everything that you presumed to be true once and for feeedom.
The ensuing riots are given a lot of space. Surely it is time for the over 1 billion people in India to ask themselves honestly what their contribution has been thus far towards realizing an India free from poverty, illiteracy and inequality.
View all 13 comments. The violence that occurred because of partition from all sides was a pre-cursor to what we in the modern day associate with places like Bosnia and Croatia, on a more giant scale because of the massive population.
There is a description of the British summertime capital Shimla in the Himalayas and how supplies were carried up steep mountains by porters each year. See all customer images. The villain is Mohammed Jinnah, the father of Pakistan. That book contains interviews with Mountbatten, and a selection of papers that were in his possession.
And he got his homeland. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: Learn more about Amazon Prime. Highly recommended to read if you are interested in British Raj, Indian partition and the massacre that followed, and of course the Indian Independence.
AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. The pages long book covers one of the defining years in Indian History that starts from Lord Mountbatten being appointed as the Last Viceroy of India to carry out the difficult task of granting independence to India and ends with the funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.
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