An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging. Stanley Wolpert More Quotes by Stanley Wolpert More Quotes From Stanley Wolpert Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Stanley Wolpert jinnahcreatingthree The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one. Stanley Wolpert visionstrugglelong
