Sharing this because it made me laugh. Horrifically, I am not 100% sure the author doesn't actually
believe it. From the blurb for Lawrence James
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
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it sheds new light on Mountbatten and the events of 1946-47 which ended an exercise in benign autocracy and an experiment in altruism.
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(e.a because CHUTZPAH!)