The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition Paperback – 30 October 2009
by Narendra Singh Sarila Historians and political analysts have not paid enough attention to the crucial link between Indias partition and British fears about the USSR gaining control of Central Asia. Realizing that Indian nationalists would not play the Great Game against the Soviet Union, the British settled for those willing to do so, using Islam as a political tool in pursuit of their objectives. How this operation was conceived and carried out forms the theme of this untold story of Indias partition.
Book Review: Pradeep Anand, August 2010 http://www.seeta.com/documents/SarilaIndiapartition1008.pdf
The most important take-away from the book was that the British needed to protect their Middle Eastern (oil) interests from the expanding Russian/Soviet empire and required a militarily friendly swath of land in Northwestern India to launch counter-offensives, if needed. India was partitioned because the British did not trust India’s post-independence government led by the Congress Party to be friendly with Britain. From 1942 onward, the penultimate Viceroy of India, General Wavell, developed the strategy for acquiring this territory, and set its foundation, leaving the final details to Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy, and Prime Minister Atlee.
The politics behind partition Part-1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYs8tep8y9s Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3YFDy1riug Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q5kWapR7_0
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