The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India

by Aashique Ahmed Iqbal

From airports crowded with refugees desperate to flee Partition violence to the mountainous battlefields of Kashmir, aircraft proved indispensable to newly independent India. The aeroplane played a small but significant role in India's transformation from a British colony to an independent republic. Through the prism of aviation, both civil and military, 'The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India' charts India's journey from the Second World War...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192864203
• ISBN13: 9780192864208
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"