Freedom at Midnight, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 46 relations: Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Bengal Presidency, Boundary commissions (United Kingdom), British Raj, Colonialism, Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, Dominique Lapierre, Expatriate, Freedom at Midnight (web series), Himalayas, Hindus, Historical Association, History (journal), Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, India, Indian independence movement, Is Paris Burning? (book), Islam in India, James Cameron (journalist), Jawaharlal Nehru, Kashmir, Lahore, Larry Collins (writer), Lord Mountbatten, Mahatma Gandhi, Mass murder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Nathuram Godse, Nikkhil Advani, O Jerusalem!, Pakistan, Partition of India, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Princely state, Punjab Province (British India), Radcliffe Line, Shimla, Simon & Schuster, Summer capital, The Journal of Asian Studies, The Sydney Morning Herald, Train, Viceroy, Viceroy's House (film), Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, William Collins (publisher).

2. Books about British India
3. Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom

Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948 at age 78 in the compound of The Birla House (now Gandhi Smriti), a large mansion in central New Delhi.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.

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Boundary commissions (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, the boundary commissions are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies for elections to the House of Commons.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe

Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, (30 March 1899 – 1 April 1977) was a British lawyer and Law Lord best known for his role in the Partition of India.

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Dominique Lapierre

Dominique Lapierre (30 July 1931 – 2 December 2022) was a French author.

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Expatriate

An expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person who resides outside their country of citizenship.

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Freedom at Midnight (web series)

Freedom at Midnight is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language historical drama web series on Sony LIV, adapted from the book of the same name, authored by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Historical Association

The Historical Association is a membership organisation of historians and scholars founded in 1906 and based in London.

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History (journal)

History: The Journal of the Historical Association is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Historical Association.

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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (হোসেন শহীদ সোহ্‌রাওয়ার্দী; حسین شہید سہروردی; 8 September 18925 December 1963) was a Pakistani Bengali barrister and politician.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Is Paris Burning? (book)

Is Paris Burning? is a 1965 book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre telling the story of the Liberation of Paris during the Second World War.

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Islam in India

Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census.

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James Cameron (journalist)

Mark James Walter Cameron CBE (17 June 1911 – 26 January 1985) was a British journalist and writer, in whose memory the annual James Cameron Memorial Lecture is given.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Lahore

Lahore (لہور; لاہور) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab.

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Larry Collins (writer)

John Lawrence Collins Jr. (September 14, 1929 – June 20, 2005) was an American writer.

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Lord Mountbatten

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Mass murder

Mass murder is the violent crime of killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 187611 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan.

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Nathuram Godse

Nathuram Vinayak Godse (19 May 1910 – 15 November 1949) was the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi.

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Nikkhil Advani

Nikkhil Suresh Advani (born 28 April 1971) is an Indian director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema.

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O Jerusalem!

O Jerusalem! is a history book published in 1971 by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins that seeks to capture the events surrounding the creation of Israel, and the subsequent expulsion and flight of Palestinians.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Punjab Province (British India)

The Punjab Province was a province of British India.

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Radcliffe Line

The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India.

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Shimla

Shimla (also known as Simla, the official name until 1972) is the capital and the largest city of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Summer capital

A summer capital is a city used as an administrative capital during extended periods of particularly hot summer weather.

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The Journal of Asian Studies

The Journal of Asian Studies is the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, publishing peer-reviewed academic scholarship in the field of Asian studies.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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Train

A train (from Old French trahiner, from Latin trahere, "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.

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Viceroy

A viceroy is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

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Viceroy's House (film)

Viceroy's House is a 2017 fictional drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha and written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini, and Chadha.

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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (Marathi pronunciation: ʋinaːjək saːʋəɾkəɾ; 28 May 1883 – 26 February 1966) was an Indian politician, activist and writer.

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William Collins (publisher)

William Collins (12 October 1789 – 2 January 1853) was a Scottish schoolmaster, editor and publisher who founded William Collins, Sons, now part of HarperCollins.

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See also

Books about British India

• A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province
• Begums, Thugs and White Mughals
• Bulandshahr: Or, Sketches of an Indian District
• Churchill's Secret War
• Freedom at Midnight
• Ham Hindu Nahin
• India Conquered
• Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
• Indian Trees
• Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
• Panjab Castes
• Partition Voices
• Prince, Patron and Patriarch
• Return of a King
• Thacker's Indian Directory
• The British in India: A Social History of the Raj
• The Chitral Campaign: A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat and Bajour
• The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
• The Hill of Devi
• The History of British India
• The Imperial Gazetteer of India
• The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush
• The Last Mughal
• The Relief of Chitral
• The Scandal of Empire
• The Story of the Malakand Field Force
• The Unfinished Memoirs
• Thirty-five Years in the Punjab
• Tragedy of Hyderabad (book)
• Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
• Two Months In Arrah
• Where Three Empires Meet
• With Kelly to Chitral

Books about foreign relations of the United Kingdom

• Amazon Watershed
• Arms and the Covenant
• Chronicle of Malaysia
• Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War
• Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel
• East and West (book)
• Freedom at Midnight
• Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
• Mr Galloway Goes to Washington
• Much Sounding of Bugles
• Not Quite the Diplomat
• Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
• Return of a King
• Rough Music: Blair, Bombs, Baghdad, London, Terror
• Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam
• The Chariot of Israel
• The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It
• The Expansion of England
• The Extreme Centre
• The Great Game (Hopkirk book)
• The Origins of the Second World War
• The Strange Death of David Kelly
• Why Are We the Good Guys?
• Why England Slept

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_at_Midnight