Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (von Tunzelmann, 2007)
1947 · Resource
Alex von Tunzelmann on the Mountbattens, Nehru, and the messy end of the Raj.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1947
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Korean War (1950)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)