Fighting Retreat (Record no. 60368)
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| fixed length control field | 01660 a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 240531b 2023|||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780670094868 (HB) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Universal Decimal Classification number | 94(54) |
| Item number | REI |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Reid, Walter |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fighting Retreat |
| Sub Title | : Winston Churchill and India |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher | Penguin Viking |
| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Place of publication | Gurugram |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiv, 332p. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Winston Churchill was closely connected with India from 1896, when he landed in Bombay with his regiment, until 1947, when independence was finally achieved. No other British statesman had such a long association with the sub-continent—or interfered in its politics so consistently and harmfully.<br/><br/>Churchill strove to sabotage any moves towards independence, crippling the Government of India Act over five years of dogged opposition to its passage in the 1930s. As Prime Minister during the Second World War, Churchill frustrated the freedom struggle from behind the scenes, delaying independence by a decade. To this day he is ‘the’ imperialist villain for Indians, held personally responsible for the Bengal Famine.<br/><br/>This book reveals Churchill at his worst: cruel, obstructive and selfish. The same man was outstandingly liberal at the Colonial Office, risking his career with his generosity to the Boers and the Irish, and later speeding up independence in the Middle East. Why was he so strangely hostile towards India? |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Famines -- India -- Bengal |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- India |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| 1 | IMSc Library | Technical Processing | 94(54) REI | 77908 | BOOKS |