Even an extremely biased and opinionated book like this cannot spin it well to lead the readers to the authors point of view. Congress largely and Gandhi in particular served well to their British masters and led the unsuspecting nation to compromises that only helped to delay and diffuse the freedom struggle. But if one follows the period deeply and analytically refusing to accept the opinionated inferences presented by the authors, it will be clear that freedom came to India when colonialism was anyway ending from everywhere in the world. No one book or may be any at all will ever completely articulate the other side of the coin. Cultural and social aspects are touched but mostly to support the authors biased inferences. Misses out on the contemporary global events that had influenced Indo-British politics at that time. Probably a politically sponsored account of Indian freedom struggle. Biased to show congress and Nehru, Gandhi in good lights.
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