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Book by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins

For the album by David Benoit, see Freedom at Midnight (album).

Freedom at Midnight () is a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition.

It details the last year of the British Raj, from to , beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.

Content

The book provides a detailed account of the last year of the British Raj; the reactions of princely states towards independence, including descriptions of the colourful and extravagant lifestyles of the Indian princes; the partition of British India (into India and Pakistan) on religious grounds; and the bloodshed that followed.^[1]

There is a description of Shimla, the British summertime capital in the Himalayas, and how supplies were carried up steep mountains by porters eac