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1 " On 23 June 1757, marching through a drenching rainfall at the head of 900 Englishmen of the 39th Foot and 2000 Indian sepoys, an audacious general named Robert Clive routed the army of a troublesome Nawab in the rice paddies outside a Bengali village called Plassey. "
― Larry Collins , Freedom at Midnight
2 " Mountbatten was stunned by the rigidity of Jinnah's position. 'I never would have believed,' he later recalled, 'that an intelligent man, well-educated, trained in the Inns of Court, was capable of simply closing his mind "
3 " One blessing, one sire, one womb Their being gave. They had one mortal sickness And share one grave Far from an England they never knew. "
4 " Mrs Penn Montague, who spoke six languages, rose every day at four in the afternoon. "
