Shadow of the Great Game:The Untold Story of India's Partition (Record no. 222787)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 8172235690 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | AL |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 954.035 |
| Item number | SARS |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Narendra Singh Sarila |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33910 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Shadow of the Great Game:The Untold Story of India's Partition |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harpercollins |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2005 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 436 p. |
| Other physical details | HB |
| Dimensions | 24.5x16.5 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | ₹500.00 |
| Currency code | ₹ |
| Unit of pricing | ₹500.00 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A saga of power and passion and betrayals revealing the true motives of the British at the time of partition and how Indian leaders were outmanoeuvred by them<br/>Historians and political analysts have not paid enough attention to the crucial link between India’s partition and British fears about the USSR gaining control of the oil wells of the Middle East – the wells of power. Once the British leaders realized that the Indian nationalists would not join them to play the Great Game against the Soviet Union, they settled for those willing to do so. In the process, they did not hesitate to use Islam as a political tool to fulfil their objectives. How this operation was conceived and carried out, behind a thick smoke screen, forms the theme of this untold story of India’s partition.<br/><br/>The top-secret documentary evidence unearthed by the author throws new light on several prominent figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Lord Archibald Wavell, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Sardar Patel and the two Menons (V.P. and Krishna). The contents also bring out little known facts about the unobtrusive pressure that the USA exerted on Britain in favour of India’s independence – as well as unity – in the hope of evolving a new post-colonial world order. The author also traces the roots of the present Kashmir imbroglio and how the matter was dealt with in the UN.<br/>This timely volume sends out a cautionary signal to present-day Indians: to avoid misplaced idealism, superciliousness and escapism, to which some of their ancestors fell prey. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Islam and politics -- India -- History |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33911 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | India -- History -- Partition 1947 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33912 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- India |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33913 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1964 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33914 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | SARILA (Narendra Singh) |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33915 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | George Fernandes Collections |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | History | St Aloysius Library | St Aloysius Library | 03/24/2013 | 954.035 SARS | GF03084 | 05/05/2022 | 05/05/2022 | George Fernandes Collections |
