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8. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. I, pp. 80-81.
9. Ibid, p. 73, Mountbatten’s Note: A Discussion with Jinnah in Lahore on 1 November 1947
10. John Connell, Auchinleck: A Biography of Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, p. 932.
11. Ajit Prasad Jain, What Really Happened, p. 14.
12. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. I, p. 51.
13. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. VI, p. 387.
14. Jawaharlal Nehru, Letters to Chief Ministers, vol. I, p. 43.
15. Ibid, p. 61.
16. Ibid, p. 119.
17. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. I, p. 249.
18. Lieut.-Gen. S. P. P. Thorat, From Reveille to Retreat, p. 101.
19. Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, vol. III, p. 263.
20. Stanley Wolpert, Nehru: A Tryst With Destiny, p. 424.
21. Prem Nath Bazaz, The History of Struggle for Freedom in Kashmir, p. 248.
22. Ibid, p. 272.
23. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. I, p. 130.
24. Ibid, pp. 119-22.
25. K. M. Munshi, letter to author, 17 December 1968.
26. Mahavir Tyagi, interview with author; also narrated by Prakash Vir Shastri, MP, in Swatantra Jyoti (Sardar Patel Number), 1973, p. 27.
27. H. V. Kamath, MP, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel: Some Memories, in Bhavan’s Journal, 26 January 1982, p. 63.
28. M. P. Masani, letter to author, 25 July 1969.
29. Shahid Hamid, Major-General, Disastrous Twilight, p. 293.
30. Jayaprakash Narayan, Sardar’s Immortal Legacy in the Swatantra Jyoti, Special Patel Number 1973, p. 13.
31. M. N. Roy, Men I Met, p. 17.
Tibet
1. Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, vol. III, pp. 223-237.
2. Ibid, p. 33 (quoted from A. Pant’s Mandala).
3. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. VIII, p. 136.
4. K. M. Munshi, Pilgrimage to Freedom, p. 175.
5. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. X, pp. 336-41.
6. Brown, Judith M., Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy, p. 128
Nepal
1. K. P .S. Menon (ICS), Memories and Musings, p. 46.
2. Sarvepalli Gopal, Jawaharlal Nehru, vol. III.
3. The London Economist, 22 April 2006.
PART III: APPENDICES
9: A Churchillian Plan
1. Wavell, The Viceroy’s Journal, p. 120.
2. Cited in The Untold Story of India’s Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila, Oriental & Indian Collection, British Library, London, (hereafter OIC) p. 25.
3. Ibid, p. 26.
4. The Transfer of Power 1942-4, vol. I, the Cripps Mission, January-April 1942, Document 208, pp. 282-84.
5. Ibid, Document 375, p. 468.
6. Sarila, ibid (OIC cited), p. 24.
7. Ibid, p. 22.
8. Ibid, p. 23.
9. Lieut-Gen. L. P. Sen, Slender was the Thread: Kashmir Confrontation 1947-48, p. 22.
10. The Times of India, 14 June 1987.
11. Durga Das, India from Curzon to Nehru and After, p. 216.
12. The Transfer of Power, vol. VI, pp. 71-72.
13. Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan, p. 83.
14. John Glendevon, The Viceroy at Bay, p. 198.
15. H. V. Hodson, The Great Divide: Britain-India-Pakistan, pp. 124-25.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid, p. 166.
18. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. III, p. 179 (G.L. Mehta’s letter to Patel).
19. The Statesman, 21 August 1946.
20. Penderel Moon, Divide and Quit, p. 69.
21. Ibid, p. 20.
22. Humphrey Evans, Thimayya of India: A Soldier’s Life, p. 253.
23. Ibid, pp. 255.
24. Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, vol. IV, pp. 320-21, letter dated 1 September 1947.
25. Alan Campbell-Johnson, Mission with Mountbatten, p. 214.
26. Moon, Divide and Quit, p. 247.
27. Mridula Sarabhai, the Tribune, 16 April 1948, cited in South Asia, journal of South Asian Studies, vol. XVIII, 1995, p. 70.
28. South Asia, p. 67.
29. Roy Bucher, letter to author, 30 July 1969 (reproduced on p. 201).
30. The Times of India, 14 December 1981.
31. Stanley Wolpert, Jinnah of Pakistan, p. 164.
32. Ayesha Jalal, The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan, p. 165.
33. Hodson, ibid, p. 137.
34. Ibid, p. 350.
35. Wavell, ibid, p. 495.
36. J. B. Kripalani, Gandhi: His Life and Thoughts, pp. 248-49.
37. Sardar Patel, in tune with the millions—I, vol. II, p. 106.
38. M. N. Roy, Men I Met, pp. 15-16.
39. J. R. D. Tata, Keynote, p. xiii.
10: Was Kashmir sold to Gulab Singh?
1. The Times of India, 12 May 1886.
2. Vincent A. Smith, The Oxford History of India, pp. 617-18.
3. The Times of India, 12 May 1886.
4. Ibid.
5. The Random House Dictionary (College Edition), p. 1035.
6. Smith, The Oxford History of India, p. 617.
7. The Times of India, 12 May 1886.
8. Ibid.
9. The Times of India, 4 October, 1889.
10. Smith, The Oxford History of India, p. 552.
11. Report of Indian States Committee, 1928-29, Appendix II, Lord Reading’s letter of 27 March 1926 to the Nizam: cited in R. C. Mazumdar’s Struggle for Freedom, p.805; also quoted inThe Evolution of India and Pakistan 18581947: Select Documents (HMG), p. 419.
(Reproduced on pp. 196 & 198 are the two references from the Times of India of 12 May 1886 and 4 October 1889.)
15: The Man who dared Churchill
1. Sardar Patel, in tune with the millions—I, vol. II, pp. 305, 307.
2. V. Shankar, My Reminiscences of Sardar Patel, vol. I, p. 126.
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INDEX
Abdullah, Sheikh: November 1947 incursion into Kashmir, “Quit Kashmir” movement; Article myth of Kashmir sold to Gulab Singh; claim proved false by Treaty of Amritsar, Jinnah’s objection to plebiscite,K. M. Munshi’s letter referring to Article
Abell, Sir George
Acharya Kripalani see Kripalani, J. B.
Aiyangar, Arvamudh
Aiyar, C. P. Ramaswami
Ali, Ghazanfar
Ali, Mir Laik
Amery, L. S.
Anthony, Frank
Attlee, C. R., policy statement
Auchinleck, Sir Claude
Ayyangar, Gopalaswami
Azad, Maulana
Bajpai, Girija Shankar
Besant, Annie
Bhave, Vinoba
Bhopal, Nawab of
Bhutto, Shah Nawaz
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Bikaner, Maharaja of
Bombay Legislative Council
Bombay Provincial Conference
Bombay Provincial Congress Parliamentary Board
Bombay Revenue Jurisdiction Act
Bose, Sarat
Bose, Subhash Chandra
Bozman, G. S.
Brailsford, H. N.
Broomfield, Robert
Brown, Douglas
Brown, Judith
Buch, N. M.
Bucher, Gen. Roy
Cabinet Mission
Campbell-Johnson, Alan
Central Legislative Assembly
Chamber of Princes
&n
bsp; Chaudhuri, Maj-Gen. J. N.
Chaudhury, Kaliquzzaman
Chetty, R. K. Shanmukham
China, Relationship with
Churchill, Winston
Cochin, Maharaja of
Communist International
Communist Party
Congress Legislative Party
Congress Socialist Party
Constituent Assembly
Corfield, Conrad
Cripps, Sir Stafford
Curzon, Lord
Dandi March
Das, Durga
Davis, G.
Desai, Mahadev
Deshmukh, C. D.
Deva, Narendra
Dhrangadhra, Maharaja of
Direct Action
District Municipal Act
Elmhirst, Thomas
Gadgil, N. V.
Gandhi-Irwin pact
Gandhi, M. K: Kheda &
Nagpur Satyagrahas; Dandi March; challenges within the Congress; resolution on division of Punjab; in favour of Cabinet Mission plan,unification of Kathiawar states; intervention to propose Nehru’s name for presidentship of Congress
Gazdar, M. H.
Gilgit Scouts
Glancy, Bertrand
Gopal, S.
Government of India Act
Governor’s Council
Gracey, General Douglas
Graham, W. Gordon
Gwalior, Maharaja of
Gujarat Sabha
Gulab Singh, Maharaja
Hanwant Singh, Maharaja
Hari Singh, Maharaja, see Kashmir, Maharaja of
Henderson, Arthur
Hidayatullah, Ghulam Hussain
Himatsinhji, Col.
Hoare, Samuel
Hodson, H. V.
Hyderabad: Nizam of,integration into India
Iengar, H. V. R.
Independence for India League
Indian Administrative Service
Indian Civil Service
Indian Independence Act
Indian Independence Bill
Indian National Congress: Parliamentary Board,Sessions – Ahmedabad, 56; Amritsar, Faizpur, December Lucknow, April Tripuri,Simla Conference,Working Committee
Indore, Maharaja of
Instrument of Accession
Irwin, Viceroy Lord
Ismail, Mirza
Ismay, Lord
Ittehad-ul-Mussalmeen
Jaisalmer, Maharajkumar of
Jalal, Ayesha
Jamsaheb of Nawanagar
Jayaprakash Narayan
Jinnah, M. A: ; resolution condemning arrest of Patel before Dandi March, grouping scheme; League joins interim government; support to CP,attempt to get Jodhpur’s accession to Pakistan; Bhopal as emissary, & accession of Junagadh & Bhutto’s role, Mountbatten’s offer of plebiscite in Kashmir ,British 1942 plan for Partition; discussion with Mountbatten regarding states
Jodhpur, Maharaja of