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Copyright © John Keay 2014
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Source ISBN: 9780007326570 (HB), 9780007480036 (TPB)
Ebook Edition © January 2014 ISBN: 9780007468775
Version: 2015-07-20
In Memory of Julia Keay
Contents
3. Who Has Not Heard of the Vale of Cashmere?
8. Two-Way Tickets, Double Standards
1. Wavell greets Jinnah prior to the 1946 Cabinet Mission talks. (Press Information Bureau/British Library)
2. Gandhi with Pethick-Lawrence during the talks. (akg-images/Archiv Peter Rühe)
3. Police use teargas to disperse a crowd in Calcutta. (© Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)
4. The aftermath of the Calcutta killings of August 1946. (© Bettmann/CORBIS)
5. Lord and Lady Mountbatten’s carriage swamped by the crowd during India’s Independence Day celebrations. (Topham Picturepoint)
6. Nehru addresses a crowd of over a million on Independence Day. (Topham Picturepoint)
7. Trains packed with fleeing refugees at Amritsar. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)
8. The refugee caravans were easy prey. Hundreds of thousands were massacred. (© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans)
9. Female students protest against the adoption of Urdu as Pakistan’s official language in Dhaka in 1953. (Rafiqul Islam)
10. Demonstrators in Bombay burn an effigy of Nehru in January 1956. (AP/Press Association Images)
11. Tenzing Norgay at the summit of Everest. (Getty Images)
12. Indian patrol in eastern Ladakh in 1960. (Topfoto)
13. Indian women preparing to defend the nation during the 1962 Sino–Indian war. (Topfoto)
14.