![]() Than 100,000 photographs, 600 written collections, 900 maps and thousands of hours of film footage. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of Independence, Cambridge’s Centre of South Asian Studies is staging a unique exhibition over four floors of the Alison Richard Building – drawing on the Centre’s unparalleled collection of more ![]() This struggle for sovereignty took many forms: violent and non-violent, elite and popular, religious and secular, ![]() Contrary to legend, the British had not been keen to devolve power gradually. Their freedom had been hard fought and came at a huge cost. On August 15, 1947, at the stroke of midnight, India and Pakistan achieved independence from British rule – signalling the beginning of the end of the largest empire in history. ![]()
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