Second Booklist for Lockdown Course on British India

Crisis of The Raj (Indian Mutiny) Wayne Broehl

Empire Jeremy Paxman

A Cultural History of The British Empire John MacKenzie

Independence and Partition

1945 The Reckoning (end of European empires) Phil Craig

Freedom at Midnight Collins & Lapierre

A Short History of The Indian Partition Gautam Madhav

Partition Barney White-Spunner

Shattered Lands (Partitions in British Asia) Sam Dalrymple

NB

Empire by Paxman is a popular account and easily readable

1945 is rece4ntly published with great reviews

Shattered Lands is a new and readable approach to this topic

Freedom at Midnight is the classic account.