books.google.co.in - Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/Shameful_Flight_The_Last_Years_of_the_Br.html?id=uJHTif-WA6oC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareShameful Flight : The Last Years of the British Empire in India