Freedom at Midnight, eAudiobook MP3 eaudioBook

Freedom at Midnight eAudiobook MP3

Narrated by Frederick Davidson

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This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armiesthe India of Kipling's legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races, religions, and castesthe India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of sadhus and holy menthe India that was the heart and soul of an empireunderwent a violent transformation into the new India of Gandhi and Nehru, precursor of the Third World. At the center of this drama are Nehru, Jinnah, Mountbatten and, of course, Gandhi, the gentle prophet of revolution, who stirred the masses of the most populous area on earth without raising his voice.

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