Shameful Flight

Subtitled, "The Last Years Of The British Empire In India". A narrative history of the final years of the British presence in India, arguing that it laid the foundation for the violence between India and Pakistan.

Stanley Wolpert is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Gandhi's Passion, Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, Jinnah of Pakistan, and A New History of India.