The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition, Narendra Singh Sarila

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The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition, Narendra Singh Sarila

Name: The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition, Narendra Singh Sarila
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The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India's Partition, Narendra Singh Sarila — 1st Edition

Publication: London, Constable, 2006

Formatting: 8vo, pp. 432.

Condition Report: Near Fine. The original red cloth binding remains tight, square, and remarkably bright, with sharp corners and entirely unbumped spine ends, demonstrating a clear absence of standard shelf-wear. The text block is solid, with the page edges exhibiting only a very faint hint of age-toning customary for paper stock of this period. Internally, the leaves are crisp, clean, and free from any foxing or marking, presenting an excellent reading copy. The book is housed in its original, unclipped dust jacket (retaining the original price), which grades as Very Good+; it displays only trivial rubbing to the extremities and a faint suggestion of handling wear, with no chips, tears, or significant fading.

Catalogue Note: This copy represents the First UK Edition, published by Constable in 2006, following its original Indian publication by HarperCollins the preceding year. It is presented in its primary red cloth binding with silver gilt lettering to the spine, complete with its original dust jacket.

As the author was a former aide-de-camp to Lord Mountbatten, the text offers a uniquely proximate geopolitical perspective on the twilight of the British Raj.

While the 2007 paperback reprints are exceedingly common, this 2006 hardcover first UK printing has become increasingly uncommon on the open market—particularly in such highly preserved, unread condition, as many available copies suffer from library markings or significant jacket wear.

In The Shadow of the Great Game, Narendra Singh Sarila dismantles conventional historical narratives surrounding the partition of India, offering a provocative, revisionist account grounded in previously unexamined, top-secret documentary evidence. Sarila meticulously charts how British strategic interests, specifically the desire to secure Middle Eastern oil reserves and maintain a buffer against the Soviet Union, heavily influenced the hasty and catastrophic division of the subcontinent. By unveiling the geopolitical machinations of key figures such as Mountbatten, Churchill, Attlee, and Jinnah, the author exposes the enduring consequences of these imperial decisions, revealing how the legacy of the 'Great Game' continues to underpin the volatile political landscape of modern South Asia.

Book Condition: Near Fine

Book Authors: Narendra Singh Sarila

Book Publisher: Constable

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: History

Book edition: First Edition

Signed: No

Book Pages: 432

Book Publication Year: 2006

Book Publication Date:

Book Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: N/A

Book Series: N/A

Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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