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Second Booklist for Lockdown Course on British India

  • Writer: William Tyler
    William Tyler
  • Jun 30, 2025
  • 1 min read

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.

 
 
 

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