Transitions: Britain’s decolonization of India and Pakistan
In this chapter, Johnson analyses the processes and calculations that led to the British withdrawal from India and Pakistan in 1947–48. This was not simply a case of the British being driven out, but rather a combination of unrest in India and new priorities for the British at home, set against an e...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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