Churchill Roosevelt And India

Author : Auriol Weigold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135856045

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Churchill, Roosevelt and India by Auriol Weigold Pdf

As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. Weigold adroitly unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, in the process, revealing the campaign’s outcomes for nationalist Indians. In 1942 Sir Stafford Cripps went to India to offer limited self-government for the duration of the war. However, when negotiations between Churchill and his newly convened India Committee collapsed, the failure of the talks was publicized in the United States as a matter of Indian intransigence and not Britain’s failure to negotiate—a spin of the news that critically affected public opinion. Relying upon extensive archival research, Weigold exposes the gap between Britain’s propaganda account and both the official and unofficial records of the course the negotiations took. Weigold concludes that during the drafting, progress and planned failure of Cripps’ Offer, this episode in the imperial endgame revolved around Churchill and Roosevelt, leaving Indian leaders without influence over their immediate political future.

Author : M. S. Venkataramani,B. K. Shrivastava
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025110894

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Roosevelt, Gandhi, Churchill by M. S. Venkataramani,B. K. Shrivastava Pdf

Author : Mudhusree Mukerjee
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459613638

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Churchills's Secret War by Mudhusree Mukerjee Pdf

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Author : Madhusree Mukerjee
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465022601

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Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee Pdf

A dogged enemy of Hitler, resolute ally of the Americans, and inspiring leader through World War II, Winston Churchill is venerated as one of the truly great statesmen of the last century. But while he has been widely extolled for his achievements, parts of Churchill’s record have gone woefully unexamined. As journalist Madhusree Mukerjee reveals, at the same time that Churchill brilliantly opposed the barbarism of the Nazis, he governed India with a fierce resolve to crush its freedom movement and a profound contempt for native lives. A series of Churchill’s decisions between 1940 and 1944 directly and inevitably led to the deaths of some three million Indians. The streets of eastern Indian cities were lined with corpses, yet instead of sending emergency food shipments Churchill used the wheat and ships at his disposal to build stockpiles for feeding postwar Britain and Europe. Combining meticulous research with a vivid narrative, and riveting accounts of personality and policy clashes within and without the British War Cabinet, Churchill’s Secret War places this oft-overlooked tragedy into the larger context of World War II, India’s fight for freedom, and Churchill’s enduring legacy. Winston Churchill may have found victory in Europe, but, as this groundbreaking historical investigation reveals, his mismanagement—facilitated by dubious advice from scientist and eugenicist Lord Cherwell—devastated India and set the stage for the massive bloodletting that accompanied independence.

Author : M. S Venkataramani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 8170270650

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Roosevelt, Gandhi, Churchill by M. S Venkataramani Pdf

Author : Auriol Weigold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135856052

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Churchill, Roosevelt and India by Auriol Weigold Pdf

As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. Weigold adroitly unravels the reasons why this propaganda campaign was deemed necessary by Churchill, in the process, revealing the campaign’s outcomes for nationalist Indians. In 1942 Sir Stafford Cripps went to India to offer limited self-government for the duration of the war. However, when negotiations between Churchill and his newly convened India Committee collapsed, the failure of the talks was publicized in the United States as a matter of Indian intransigence and not Britain’s failure to negotiate—a spin of the news that critically affected public opinion. Relying upon extensive archival research, Weigold exposes the gap between Britain’s propaganda account and both the official and unofficial records of the course the negotiations took. Weigold concludes that during the drafting, progress and planned failure of Cripps’ Offer, this episode in the imperial endgame revolved around Churchill and Roosevelt, leaving Indian leaders without influence over their immediate political future.

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596917422

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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke Pdf

A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to the world-wide institution that he had served for most of his life. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat Hitler and his allies-and won. Yet less than five years after Churchill's defiant speech, the British Empire effectively ended with Indian Independence in August 1947 and the end of the British Mandate in Palestine in May 1948. As the sun set on Britain's Empire, the age of America as world superpower dawned. How did this rapid change of fortune come about? Peter Clarke's book is the first to analyze the abrupt transition from Rule Britannia to Pax Americana. His swiftly paced narrative makes superb use of letters and diaries to provide vivid portraits of the figures around whom history pivoted: Churchill, Gandhi, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, and a host of lesser-known figures though whom Clarke brilliantly shows the human dimension of epochal events. The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire is a captivating work of popular history that shows how the events that followed the war reshaped the world as profoundly as the conflict itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:909900748

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Atlantic Charter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Society for the Advancement of India
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015064424453

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British Rule in India by Society for the Advancement of India Pdf

Author : Warren F. Kimball
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400875740

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Churchill and Roosevelt, Volume 1 by Warren F. Kimball Pdf

Volume one of the complete wartime correspondence of the two great statesmen of the twentieth century This three-volume work is the first complete collection of the correspondence of Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. These volumes bring together every written communication that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt during their years of wartime leadership, providing rare perspective on the politics and strategy of the Second World War as conducted by two of history’s most charismatic men. Few other world leaders have communicated so regularly and on such an informal and often personal level. The topics covered in their correspondence range from the fate of nations and the shape of the postwar world to the mixing of martinis, details of fishing trips, and the swapping of doggerel verse. A major scholarly contribution, Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence draws on exhaustive research in American and British archives and include telegrams, letters, memos, and scrawled notes as well as transcripts made of Churchill and Roosevelt’s telephone conversations and a number of message drafts and unsent cables that offer unique insights into the thinking of the two leaders. Warren Kimball provides invaluable commentaries throughout, giving the context of specific documents and providing a chronology of the period. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : M. S. Venkataramani,B. K. Shrivastava
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008220967

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Quit India by M. S. Venkataramani,B. K. Shrivastava Pdf

Author : Peter Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000122910866

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The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire by Peter Clarke Pdf

Discusses the decline in the British empire's power after the second World War, and the political issues behind the rise of the United States as a world superpower.

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780553905045

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Gandhi & Churchill by Arthur Herman Pdf

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire. They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and careers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars—and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of countries, continents, and ultimately an empire. Gandhi & Churchill reveals how both men were more alike than different, and yet became bitter enemies over the future of India, a land of 250 million people with 147 languages and dialects and 15 distinct religions—the jewel in the crown of Britain’s overseas empire for 200 years. Over the course of a long career, Churchill would do whatever was necessary to ensure that India remain British—including a fateful redrawing of the entire map of the Middle East and even risking his alliance with the United States during World War Two. Mohandas Gandhi, by contrast, would dedicate his life to India’s liberation, defy death and imprisonment, and create an entirely new kind of political movement: satyagraha, or civil disobedience. His campaigns of nonviolence in defiance of Churchill and the British, including his famous Salt March, would become the blueprint not only for the independence of India but for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and struggles for freedom across the world. Now master storyteller Arthur Herman cuts through the legends and myths about these two powerful, charismatic figures and reveals their flaws as well as their strengths. The result is a sweeping epic of empire and insurrection, war and political intrigue, with a fascinating supporting cast, including General Kitchener, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure, and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.

Author : Michael Kluger,Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526786326

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Roosevelt and Churchill: The Atlantic Charter by Michael Kluger,Richard J. Evans Pdf

The dramatic secret meeting between Churchill and FDR that forged their alliance against global fascism is brought to life in this WWII history. On August 14, 1941, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a joint declaration of goals for the world after the Second World War. The Atlantic Charter was a powerful statement against tyranny and an important display of the “Special Relationship” between the UK and the US. Roosevelt and Churchill: The Atlantic Charter tells the story behind this momentous document and the secret meeting that led to its creation. Churchill and Roosevelt barely knew each other when they met off the coast of Newfoundland aboard the USS Augusta. After a desperate dash across the U-boat infested Atlantic, Churchill spent four days at sea with Roosevelt, establishing both a personal friendship and an international alliance that would change the world. Exploring the lives of both men, the authors also include biographies of those who were vital to the process: Roosevelt’s Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins and foreign policy advisor Sumner Welles; and Churchill’s confidants Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Cadogan, and his son Randolph Churchill.

Author : Franklin Delano Roosevelt,Harold D. Loewenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:74014854

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Roosevelt and Churchill by Franklin Delano Roosevelt,Harold D. Loewenheim Pdf