5/10/2023 0 Comments Shameful flight by stanley wolpertYet, his central argument mirrors the misgivings of the relics of the pre-War Conservative Party to the management of decolonisation. Wolpert cannot be lumped with the Tory "revisionist" historians such as Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson who have done so much to rescue the British Empire from the gratuitous derision of post-War historiography. This slim chronological study of the events from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the Kashmir war of 1948 is an offshoot of his biographies-but laced with an intriguing thesis. As a biographer of the three towering personalities who played key roles-Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah-Stanley Wolpert has examined the Partition saga from the perspective of the Congress, the Muslim League and the maverick loner. Indeed, most of the recent publications on the subject have either tapped the hidden reservoirs of public memory-basically survivors' tales-or fallen back on interpretation. With most of the official and private papers in the public domain there is precious little by way of original findings that a historian can hope for. From the encyclopaedic 12-volume The Transfer of Power documents to Patrick French's delightful bestseller Liberty or Death, there are few aspects of the bloody Partition of India that have not been written about.
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