The Untold Story Of India Partition The Shadow Of The Great Game

Download or read book The Untold Story Of India Partition : The Shadow Of The Great Game written by Narendra Singh Sarila and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and political analysts have not paid enough attention to the crucial link between Indias partition and British fears about the USSR gaining control of Central Asia. Realizing that Indian nationalists would not play the Great Game against the Soviet Union, the British settled for those willing to do so, using Islam as a political tool in pursuit of their objectives. How this operation was conceived and carried out forms the theme of this untold story of Indias partition. Narendra Singh Sarila unearths top-secret documents which throw new light on several prominent political figures of the era, while bringing out little-known facts about the pressure that the US exerted on Britain to grant India her independence. The author also traces the roots of the present Kashmir imbroglio in this fascinating account.