Description
James Cameron's classic work of political journalism—written by one of the finest British foreign correspondents of the mid-twentieth century during the years immediately following Indian independence—captures with extraordinary vividness and analytical clarity the hopes, the contradictions, and the extraordinary human drama of a new nation trying to become itself in the most demanding possible circumstances. Written with the authority of someone who actually witnessed the events he describes and the intelligence to understand what he was seeing, this is essential reading for every student of Indian political history. A genuinely important historical document.
