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080			_a94(54) _bREI
100			_aReid, Walter
245			_aFighting Retreat _b: Winston Churchill and India
260			_bPenguin Viking _c2023 _aGurugram
300			_axiv, 332p.
504			_aIncludes Index
520			_aWinston 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. 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. 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			_aFamines -- India -- Bengal
650			_aGreat Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
650			_aGreat Britain -- Foreign relations -- India
690			_aGeneral
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