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India Wins Freedom: The Complete Version

India Wins Freedom is an enlightened account of the partition from the author, Maulana Azad's perspective. It includes his personal experiences when India became independent, and his ideas on freedom and liberty.

The book takes the form of an autobiographical narrative and goes over the happenings of the Indian Independence movement. The book traces the events that took place and ultimately led to the partition in a frank and profound manner. The book says that politics was responsible for the partition more than religion. It also states that India failed to maximise its potential when it gained independence. The book discusses political hypocrisy, and also touches upon contemporaries of the author's, like Nehru, Gandhi, and Subhash Chandra Bose, and highlights their mind-sets during that time.

Subject
historypoliticsbiography
Themes
politics
Setting
20th centuryindiasouth asia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 283 pages

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