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020			_a9780143449140
028			_a:International Book Distributors _b:Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi _c:118065 _d:10/08/2022
082			_a954.035 REI
100			_a Reid, Walter
245			_aKeeping the Jewel in the Crown _b;the British betrayal of India _c/ Walter Reid
260			_aHaryana _b:Penguin Books _c©2016
300			_ax, 288p _b16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps _c22cm.
365			_b399
505			_a Political framework. Introduction -- The back story -- The Morley-Minto reforms -- The impact of the First World War -- The Montagu-Chelmsford reforms -- Gandhi -- Amritsar -- Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading -- British politics between the wars -- Lord Irwin -- F.E. Smith and the Simon Commission -- Empire, dominions and Commonwealth -- The Irwin Declaration -- Simon and Irwin collide: the political reaction -- Reaction to the declaration in India -- The Gandhi-Irwin Pact -- The Round-table conferences -- Willingdon -- Looking behind Churchill's words -- The background to the India bill: Civil War in the Conservative Party -- Churchill and the Privileges Committee -- The legislation -- After the Act -- Rab Butler -- Linlithgow: a new viceroy for the new Act -- Indian politics -- Policy and the war -- Amery -- Military developments -- Stafford Cripps -- Preparation for the Mission of 1942 -- Cripps in India -- Deadlock -- Failure of the Mission -- Quit India -- Government policy post-Cripps -- Wavell -- Wavell as viceroy -- The Simla Conference -- A new world -- India in 1945 -- The Cabinet mission -- After the failure of the mission -- The last viceroy -- Mountbatten's instructions -- The view from Whitehall -- The princely states -- The final plan -- Commonwealth and independence -- Endgame -- Conclusion.
520			_a"When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With reference to a vast amount of documentary material, from private letters to public records and state papers, he shows how Britain held back political progress in India for as long as possible - a policy which led to unimaginable chaos and suffering when independence was granted, and which created a legacy of hatred and distrust that continues to this day"--Publisher description.
650			_aHistory
650			_aHistory of Asia
650			_aIndia and neighboring south Asian countries;
650			_aIndia -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.
650			_aIndia -- History -- Partition, 1947.
650			_aIndia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
650			_aHistory Asia -- India & South Asia.
700			_aReid, Walter,
942			_cBOOK
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