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Pakistan
World & History
by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre · 1975 · English
Based on interviews with Lord Mountbatten and many others, it covers 1947–48: Mountbatten's arrival, the partition plan, the violence and Gandhi's assassination. It has been criticized for relying heavily on Mountbatten's version of events.
Popular history of the end of British rule and Partition in 1947.