Saturday, 8 September 2012

Book on penultimate viceroy in India launched

KARACHI: A book titled ‘Wavell and the Dying Days of the Raj — Britain’s Penultimate Viceroy in India’ by Dr Muhammad Iqbal Chawla was launched at the library of the Pakistan Study Centre, the University of Karachi, on Friday.

Welcoming the speakers and guests of the event, Prof Dr Jaffar Ahmed said the book was a sign that a shift in historiography was taking place. In the past 50 years, most historians had discussed a majority of leaders of the freedom movement. For example, there

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