Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

by Alex von Tunzelmann

warned the day before by the Criminal Investigation Department

and to guarantee safe conduct for refugees between

a massive pitched battle, for no reason anyone

“ONE MILLION DEAD”: THIS IS THE MOST CONVENIENT NUMBER to have come out of the wildly varying estimates of how many people may have been killed following partition. Mountbatten preferred the lowest available estimate, which was two hundred thousand, and has been widely condemned for it;

Muslims of New Delhi were thought to have left their homes.

out of the Commonwealth altogether.71 At the beginning

doorways and gutters were filled with their huddled

advice. Immediately, he offered his resignation to Eden;