Freedom at Midnight

This is the story of the eclipse of the British Raj and the birth of an independent India and Pakistan. The fabled India of the maharajas, with their palaces and harems, their gold-caparisoned elephants and their glittering private armies-the India of Kipling's legendary army, with its young British officers commanding troops of a dozen races, religions, and castes-the India of tiger hunts and pigsticking, of sadhus and holy men-the India that was the heart and soul of an empire-underwent a...