Freedom at Midnight

Freedom at Midnight
First edition
AuthorLarry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Audio read byFrederick Davidson (1993)
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsBritish India, partition, colonialism, Mahatma Gandhi
GenreNon-fiction, history
Published1975
PublisherWilliam Collins (UK)
Simon & Schuster (US)
ISBN9780706904062
OCLC813178801

Freedom at Midnight (1975) is a book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition. It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.