Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson,
Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy
years ago, at midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final
journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy's House, New Delhi. A fifth of
humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has
ever seen - but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into
riots and bloodshed, partition and war. This is an electrifying and
acclaimed account of the dying days of the British Raj and the drama played
out between Lord Mountbatten, Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah, as an
empire undertook a violent transformation into the new India and Pakistan.