I just finished the reading of a famous book ''Freedom at Midnight'' written by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. I think this 700 page book is highly researched book written over India's independence and partition both. Though this book is somebit tilted towards Louis Mountbatton, but the book has actually picturized the transfer of power agreement between the three players, British empire, Congress and Muslim League in a very factual manner.
This book has presented the pathetic partition of the country in a very illustrious manner. it gives me impression that independence of India was actually the partition of India which paved the annihilation of one million Punjabi and province of punjab, the heart province of undivided India at the cost of two power seekers Jinnah and Nehru and great Gandhi was forced to see this whole episode as a mock observor