PUNJAB POLITICS 1 JANUARY 1944-3 MARCH 1947

Name: PUNJAB POLITICS 1 JANUARY 1944-3 MARCH 1947
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LAST YEARS OF THE MINISTRIES, GOVERNORS FORTNIGHTLY REPORTS AND OTHER KEY DOCUMENTS

By LIONEL CARTER

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Description

This volume provides the texts of 126 fortnightly reports and other documents sent to the Viceroy by the Governors of the Punjab or their secretaries between January 1944 and early March 1947. The years covered were crucial in the run-up to partition and the volume documents the growing strength of the Muslim League in the Punjab which was most clearly demonstrated by its resounding victory in the 1946 elections. Corresponding activity on the part of the Congress and the Sikhs is also recorded.

About the Author

For more than ten years, Lionel Carterwas a member of the team (led by Nicholas Mansergh) which produced the British Government’s series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-4 7. From 1980 until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge.Carter has published four volumes with Manohar Chronicles of British Business in Asia, 1850-1960 (2002): Mountbatten’s Report on the Last Viceroyalty (2003); arid two earlier volumes of Governors’ reports: Punjab Politics, 1936-1939: the Start of Provincial Autonomy (2004) and Punjab Politics 1940-1943: Strains of War (2005).