A radical reassessment in British colonial history by the former ADC to the last Viceroy of British India is important, but Sarila's claim that current Islamic terrorism is partially rooted in Partition has wider implications. Historians have underestimated the role of British strategic interests: fears about the USSR's control of Middle Eastern oil wells and access to the Indian Ocean. New material on figures like Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell, and Nehru are offered.
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A radical reassessment in British colonial history by the former ADC to the last Viceroy of British India is important, but Sarila's claim that current Islamic terrorism is partially rooted in Partition has wider implications. Historians have underestimated the role of British strategic interests: fears about the USSR's control of Middle Eastern oil wells and access to the Indian Ocean. New material on figures like Gandhi, Jinnah, Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, Wavell, and Nehru are offered.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 8172235690. Tight book, unmarked but for small smudge to foreedge; in dust jacket with light shelfwear. Ribbon page marker.; 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.4 inches; 436 pages.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Tape-repaired tear on top edge of rear jacket, now in mylar. Book looks like new. With dust jacket. 432 p. Audience: General/trade.