Partition: The 1947 partition of India: Irish parallels

The twelve-volume series of official British documents, The transfer of power in India 1942–7, published between 1967 and 1982 is full of references to Ireland, many of them dire warnings about the awful example that Ireland offered to the British government as Indian independence  approached. The editor-in-chief, Irishman Nicholas Mansergh, Professor of Commonwealth History at ... Read more

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