The book records that the mutiny caused public disagreements between Mahatma Gandhi and Congress leader Aruna Asaf Ali, and between Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Patel.
But this seminal event, which inspired a song composed by Salil Choudhury, theatre Kallol by Utpal Dutt, and art, like the one depicted on the book’s cover, accelerated the transfer of power.