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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Simla — the summer capital
Each April–October — The government of 300 million people rides 7,000 feet up into the Himalayan foothills to escape the heat. A fifth of the year’s files are signed in a hill station the width of one ridge.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The Raj at High Noon in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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