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The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence Paperback - 1999
by David Fisher; Anthony Read
A riveting account of the end of the Raj--the most romantic of all the great empires--told in compelling and colorful detail by the authors of "The Deadly Embrace" and "The Fall of Berlin." of photos.
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The movement towards Indian independence began as soon as the British took power in the middle of the eighteenth century, and it was started not by the Indians, but by the British themselves.
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- Title The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
- Author David Fisher; Anthony Read
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-07-17
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780393318982 / 0393318982
- Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 9.31 x 6.21 x 1.04 in (23.65 x 15.77 x 2.64 cm)
- Reading level 1380
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Ethnic Orientation: Indian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010707
- Dewey Decimal Code 954.03
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- Ingram Advance, 07/01/1999, Page 46
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