Did India win Independence because of the non-violent movement led by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Nehru or was it the impact of Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army that made the British panic ...

Clement Attlee, 1950 © Attlee was the British Labour Party leader for 20 years, and presided over the 1945 - 1951 Labour government. This was the most significant ...

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s ‘Greetings To Nehru’ in Hindustan Times’s August 15, 1947 edition wished ‘peace and prosperity’ for independent India. Here is a verbatim version of the report.

A private conversation between the former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and then Acting Governor of Bengal Justice P.B. Chakravartti (1956) on the comparative role of Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji ...

British India's united Bengal Province just before it was partitioned into West and East Bengal on August 17, 1947 | Creative Commons On December 28, Pakistan newspaper Dawn published a somewhat ...

On February 20, 1947, King George VI, on the advice of British PM Clement Attlee, appointed Lord Louis Mountbatten as India’s last Viceroy of India and gave him the responsibility of overseeing the ...

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was a British Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United ...

Paul Unwin reconstructs the first days of Clement Attlee’s government in 1945 and moves through momentous history without finding a real focus The economy is in the doldrums and people are tired of ...

FIFTY years ago tomorrow, on October 8, 1967, Britain’s first post-Second World War prime minister, Clement Attlee, died of pneumonia in Westminster Hospital. His funeral was attended by 2000 people, ...

Those interested in British politics enjoy pitting certain politicians against each other, comparing and contrasting the most impressive individuals from our past. When it comes to the question of ...

Attlee was born on 2 January 1883. He had a conventional middle-class upbringing, and after going to Oxford University began a career as a barrister. However, he abandoned this to become a social ...

He was “a modest little man, with plenty to be modest about”. So said Winston Churchill of the politician who was at his side throughout the war and then crushed him at the ballot box immediately ...