And as I have been telling it more often, it was very emotional and that’s what made this book better than any other in this niche. It had epitomized the Victorian ideal of India better than anything else -dark, plucky soldiers staunchly loyal to their distant empress, led by doughty young Englishmen, straight arrows all, steady under the Pathans’ fire, good at games, stern but devoted fathers to their men, chaps who could hold their liquor in the mess. Freedom at Midnight is a panoramic spectacular of a book that reads more like sensational fiction than like history, even though it is all true…. Page after page, it summarized in its dull bureaucratic jargon the appalling implications of their decision.

By the time the Labor Government took office, the English were as tired of argument as the Indians, and Clement Attlee insisted on finishing up the whole epoch.

Because of these limitations this book is a place to start, not the place to stop in any serious study of South Asia, but reviewers who have suggested that the authors are apologists for the British are dead wrong. British, French, Dutch, Portuguese; within 25 years all that red on the map had diminished to a handful of trifling pinpoints. The way they have covered the whole period of Independence in over 650 pages is commendable, considering the fact that they have covered almost all the important events. The Story of Indian Independence is such a fascinating story, how the Indians fought the British courageously and got their Independence.

In Rawalpindi, the Second Cavalry gave an enormous barakama “good luck” banquet, to their former comrades. Mountbatten: "Well, Gandhiji, his is the only voice I'd sooner listen to than yours, but in what respect did I take God's advice against yours.By that I mean the pain endured by people of Punjab and Bengal, the problems faced by the migrants, the communal violence and stuffs. And amused I was with the arrogance with which the prose is written and the misrepresentation of history has been perpetrated through these pages.