Gokhale, the preeminent Indian interpreter of China and a gifted historian, delivers a pithy contribution to understanding how India navigated its early relationship with communist China.

King George VI, on the advice of British PM Clement Attlee, appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India’s last Viceroy of India and gave him the responsibility of overseeing the transfer of power to ...

Prominent political figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Lord Mountbatten often met in this hotel informally to discuss the future of India. 1911 was a landmark ...

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