The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence

In 1835, Lord Macaulay, in his Minute on Indian Education, had prophesied that the eventual self-rule of India would be "the proudest day in British history." And yet when independence came on the stroke of midnight of August 14, 1947, events unfolded with a violence that shocked the world: entire trainloads of Muslim and Hindu refugees were slaughtered on their flight to safety — not by the British, but by each other. Macaulay's dream had become a flawed and bloody reality. The Proudest Da...