REALIZING THAT INDIAN NATIONALISTS WOULD NOT PLAY THE GREAT GAME AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, THE BRITISH SETTLED FOR THOSE WILLING TO DO SO, USING ISLAM AS A POLITICAL TOOL IN PURSUIT OF THEIR OBJECTIVES. HOW THIS OPERATION WAS CONCEIVED AND CARRIED OUT FORMS THE THEME OF THIS UNTOLD STORY OF INDIA S PARTITION. NARENDRA SINGH SARILA UNEARTHS TOP-SECRET DOCUMENTS WHICH THROW NEW LIGHT ON SEVERAL PROMINENT POLITICAL FIGURES OF THE ERA, WHILE BRINGING OUT LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE PRESSURE THAT THE US EXERTED ON BRITAIN TO GRANT INDIA HER INDEPENDENCE.