When Partition happens and the British Raj is fractured overnight, a wonderful family is violently torn apart, and its members are forced to find increasingly desperate ways to survive.
The author reveals for the first time the astonishing story of the Indian contingent, the Muslim soldiers who fought in the pivotal Battle of Dunkirk, from their arrival in France on 26 December 1939 to their return to an India on the verge of Partition.
Abhishek Sharan and D P Sinha
HarperCollins
pp 368, Rs 396
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This book tells the stories of 10 Indian heroes who have been working in various fields to help the society’s most vulnerable lead a better life.
This is a comprehensive and painstaking portrait and analysis of Hitler’s outlook on India and its people, his opinion of their struggle against the British Raj, and his take on Indian history, culture and civilisation.
(Published 21 August 2021, 20:06 IST)