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02688aam a2200445 i 4500 001 489E933C0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 201207s2020 ii b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020330553 020 $a 9353338190 020 $a 9789353338190 035 $a (OCoLC)1226076692 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DKAGE $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d PAU $d CLU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a DS480.842 $b .B325 2020 082 04 $a 954.035 $2 23 100 1 $a Bamzai, Sandeep, $e author. 245 10 $a Princestan : $b how Nehru, Patel & Mountbatten made India / $c Sandeep Bamzai. 264 1 $a New Delhi : $b Rupa, $c 2020. 300 $a xxxi, 247 pages ; $c 23 cm 530 $a Also available as an ebook. 520 $a In the run-up to independence, a vile plan was devised by a handful of powerful princes to not join either India or Pakistan. The plan was led by the chancellor of the chamber of princes, Nawab of Bhopal, who was operating under the patronage of Mohd. Ali Jinnah, Lord Wavell and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The idea was to create a Third Dominion called Princestan where the 565 princely states would stay outside the ambit of the two free states and retain paramountcy under the aegis of the departing British. The success of such a malevolent plan would have made the newly independent nation unstable and vulnerable. However, three persons stood in the way of the nefarious British plan to balkanize India. This is the hitherto untold story of how Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten and Sardar Patel battled the rulers of the princely states at every twist and turn to foil that cunning plan, even as the process of decolonization had begun. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-244) and index. 600 10 $a Nehru, Jawaharlal, $d 1889-1964. 600 10 $a Patel, Vallabhbhai, $d 1875-1950. 600 10 $a Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, $c Earl, $d 1900-1979. 600 17 $a Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, $c Earl, $d 1900-1979. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00047322 600 17 $a Nehru, Jawaharlal, $d 1889-1964. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00043065 600 17 $a Patel, Vallabhbhai, $d 1875-1950. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00019717 648 7 $a 1919-1947 $2 fast 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 0 $a India $x History $y Partition, 1947. 651 0 $a India $x Politics and government $y 1919-1947. 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=489E933C0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search