The Transfer of Power, 1947
A View from the Sidelines
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3633708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W H Morris-Jones, W H Morris‐jone (corresponding author), W H MORRIS‐JONES (Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-32 |
| Publication date | 1982-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00000688 |
| OpenAlex | W2111713245 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Those who kindly invited me to give this lecture showed some resistance to its sub-title. I insisted on 'a view from the sidelines' because I wished to emphasize that my remarks would be based on my own presence at the events of 1947 and confined to those matters with which I had direct acquaintance. This is still largely true: mine is in part an undisguisedly personal tale. But the matter is rather more complicated. For one thing, while I was certainly a spectator I was also able for a couple of months in 1947 to scamper on to a segment of New Delhi's field of fateful play, even to get a touch or two of the ball, before returning to my place on the terraces. But for the purpose of this lecture I could not content myself with recollections; I have, as it were, examined the slow re-plays of the television cameras. In trying to match my memories, diaries and letters from 1947 with the files at India Office Records, there have, I confess, been phases of bewilderment on the way to such modest and provisional enlightenment as I can offer. It is not simply that in the 34 years the world has moved on, the perspective has changed; that is a problem which the historian's whole skill is devoted to overcome. The difficulty is aggravated when the spectator cum minor actor in the drama of yesteryear puts on the historian's robe; for not only the world but he with it has changed
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 2025 (42) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |