{"product_id":"countdown-to-partition-the-final-days-rare-books","title":"Countdown to partition: the final days [rare books]","description":"\u003cp\u003eAugust 14, 1947, was the day a free nation was born- and a country stood divided. On the day that freedom dawned, eyewitnesses say, there was a rainbow in the sky, but it was overshadowed by the black cloud of partition. This was not the freedom for which the people of India had fought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning the last three months before that fateful day, Countdown to Partition reveals the behind-the-scenes activities that went on at the time: how the Congress functioned independently of Gandhi; how Jinnah was told by Mountbatten to perform a charade in public, and how India's leaders were given only 73 days to sort out the administrative measures to be taken after partition. \"Speed and acceleration,\" contends Ajit Bhattacharjea, was the strategy that enabled Mountbatten \"to confuse terms to the Indian leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Best Of Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":45318076170497,"sku":"30IOV718H-Used","price":999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0421\/4299\/0495\/files\/jb.jpg?v=1718973944","url":"https:\/\/bestofusedbooks.com\/products\/countdown-to-partition-the-final-days-rare-books","provider":"Best Of Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}