Freedom at Midnight
India, history, british occupation, 1765-1947
Autonomie et mouvements indépendantistes
Politics/International Relations
Politics and government
History
The end of an empire. The birth of two nations. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy’s House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen—but the price o…
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