An American witness to India's partition / Phillips Talbot ; with a foreword by B.R. Nanda..

Includes index.

List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- I. India in London -- Preface, by Krishen Mehta -- School of Oriental Studies, Indian Civil Service Probationers, October 15, 1938 -- Getting Around, November 27, 1938 -- European Tour, December 27, 1938 -- "Indian Independence Day" Program, February 1, 1939 -- Exploring My Options in India, April 28, 1939 -- National Planning in India, May 12, 1939 -- II. My Introduction to India and its Politics -- Preface -- Meeting Jawaharlal Nehru, December 3, 1939 -- Liaquat Ali Khan on the Muslim League, January 10, 1940 -- A Mushaira Experience, January 20, 1940 -- Muslim League Leaders, February 6, 1940 -- The Ramgarh Congress Meeting, March 28, 1940 -- The Muslim League's Lahore Meeting, April 5, 1940 -- III. Kashmir and Lahore -- Preface -- Village Life in Kashmir, June 15, 1940 -- A Mountain Trek, June 23, 1940 -- Srinagar Family Life, August 15, 1940 -- India's Educated Classes and Poverty, September 30, 1940 505 0 $a Two Punjabi Weddings, October 15, 1940 -- European Living, Congress Party Leadership, October 25, 1940 -- Young Lahore Muslims, March 24, 1941 -- IV. Tour of Afghanistan, 1940 -- Preface -- V. Gandhi's Ashram; and on to War Service -- Preface -- Bombay Communalism, Hindu Mahasabha, April 30, 1941 -- Mysore State, July 27, 1941 -- A Stay at Gandhi's Sevagram Ashram, August 1, 1941 -- Writing from Outside India, September 20, 1941 -- India Enmeshed in the War, August 5, 1942 -- VI. India after the War -- Preface -- India in the Spring of 1946, May 27, 1946 -- Calcutta Riots, August 30, 1946 -- Muslim League in NWFP, November 30, 1946 -- With Gandhi in Noakhali, February 16, 1947 -- The Independence of India, March 19, 1947 -- VII. Indian Ashrams, 1947 -- Preface -- Travels with Vallabhbhai Patel, April 22, 1947 -- VIII. Asian Relations Conference and Beyond -- Preface -- Asian Relations Conference, April 27, 1947 -- Mountbatten, Especially as Viewed by Indian Politicians, June 17, 1947

Food Situation, Pakistan's Prospects, June 30, 1947 -- Dividing Bengal and Punjab, July 22, 1947 -- IX. Finally, the Arrival of Independence -- Preface -- Indian Independence: Gandhi and Jinnah, July 22, 1947 -- Taking Power in Pakistan and India, August 19, 1947 -- Mildred Talbot's Letter on Independence, August 27, 1947 -- Four Months on, December 12, 1947 -- Costs of Partition, December 19, 1947 -- Conflagration in Kashmir, January 15, 1948 -- X. Two Years after Independence -- Preface -- Pakistan's Buoyancy, January 10, 1950 -- The Northwest Frontier: Settled and Tribal Areas, January 15, 1950 -- Kashmir: The Escalating Crisis, January 20, 1950 -- Fresh Breezes in a Kashmir Village, January 20, 1950. -- Unrest in Hyderabad, January 24, 1950 -- India in Its Third Year of Independence, February 7, 1950 -- Afterword -- Index -- About the Author