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  1. My memories of Britain’s long and tortured exit 1931-47

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    ... awaited Shankar's cartoons. In March 1942, Sir Stafford Cripps, a minister in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government, came to India with an offer of a bigger role for Indian leaders in governing ... Saturday, 27 April 2019
  2. From Bannu to Corning – Notwithstanding the trauma of Partition

    Category: Stories/Life Back Then

    ... Gurinder Chadha aroused my interest again. The movie shows that Churchill was the mastermind of colluding with Jinnah to carve ethnic cleansed Pakistan out of India. Alex Von Tunzelmann, story writer for ... Friday, 20 October 2017
  3. My Lessons of History in School

    Category: Stories/Life Back Then

    ... how among brief sketches of the contemporary historical personalities: Winston Churchill was described as the plain and blunt speaker; Joseph Stalin was the son of a cobbler of Georgia; De Valera was a ... Monday, 18 July 2016
  4. Memories of 1940s Campbellpore

    Category: Stories/Life Back Then

    ... (God's Will). Now we know that Bengalis did not like to eat wheat, and that Churchill preferred to ask for American ships for the War Effort, but not for importing rice. Although Punjab had had no harvest ... Saturday, 08 August 2015
  5. Churchill on Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    ... in India recommended that Dyer should be ordered to retire, and the matter came before the Army Council for review. The Council accepted the recommendation, as did the British Cabinet. Winston Churchill ... Tuesday, 23 July 2013
  6. My Memories of Lahore and the Partition

    Category: Stories/Life Back Then

    ... and almost a thousand killed in the riots that followed all over India. Several students and Independence loyalists were rounded off into prisons. Winston Churchill's remark calling Gandhi "that half-naked ... Sunday, 16 September 2012
  7. Remembering S P Varma and N C Chatterjee by A H Somjee

    Category: Stories/Stories About Men

    ... War would end. Indore, now in Madhya Pradesh, was the capital of the Princely State of Indore, ruled by the Holkars. We were insulated from the day-to-day terrible news about the war. Winston Churchill, ... Friday, 17 February 2012
  8. Independence Day 1947, Delhi

    Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950

    ... it seemed that the British had finally decided to leave. There was only one lone protestor in Britain, Winston Churchill, who was ignored by the new British Government formed at the end of the war. But ... Thursday, 19 February 2009
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