Shattered Lands: The Five Partitions of India: 1937-71
Author: Sam Dalrymple
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About This Book ** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **''A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian'' PETER FRANKOPAN''Remarkable … The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic'' GUARDIAN‘This book is a revelation … both original and important'' MISHAL HUSAINA history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the ‘Indian Empire’, or more simply as the Raj.It was the British Empire’s crown jewel, a vast dominion stretching from the Red Sea to the jungles of Southeast Asia, home to a quarter of the world’s population and encompassing the largest Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian communities on the planet. Its people used the Indian rupee, were issued passports stamped ‘Indian Empire’, and were guarded by armies garrisoned in forts from the Bab el-Mandeb to the HimalayasAnd then, in the space of just fifty years, the Indian Empire shattered. Five partitions tore it apart, carving out new nations, redrawing maps, and leaving behind a legacy of war, exile and division.Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling dominion became twelve modern nations. How maps were redrawn in boardrooms and on battlefields, by politicians in London and revolutionaries in Delhi, by kings in remote palaces and soldiers in trenches.Its legacies include civil war in Burma and ongoing insurgencies in Kashmir, Baluchistan and Northeast India, and the Rohingya genocide. It is a history of ambition and betrayal, of forgotten wars and unlikely alliances, of borders carved with ink and fire. And, above all, it is the story of how the map of modern Asia was made.Sam Dalrymple’s stunning history is based on deep archival research, previously untranslated private memoirs, and interviews in English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Konyak, Arabic and Burmese. From portraits of the key political players to accounts of those swept up in these wars and mass migrations, Shattered Lands is vivid, compelling, thought-provoking history at its best.‘A stunning achievement. Shattered Lands reframes the story of South Asia with rare empathy and elegance, breathing life into the legacies of the partitions that shape a quarter of our world today’ THANT MYINT-U‘This richly researched, vividly written book tells the story of how a colossal and powerful Empire was broken up into many distinct nation-states…An impressive debut by a gifted and very energetic young writer’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA Read more Book Details Author: Sam Dalrymple Publisher: William Collins (10 April 2025); HarperCollins Publishers; enquiries@harpercollins.ie Format: Hardcover – 10 April 2025 Language: English Pages: 400 ISBN: 978-0008466824 Dimensions: 15.3 x 4.4 x 23.4 cm Weight: 732 g
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- English • Hardcover – 10 April 2025
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About This Book ** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **''A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian'' PETER FRANKOPAN''Remarkable … The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic'' GUARDIAN‘This book is a revelation … both original and important'' MISHAL HUSAINA history of modern South Asia...
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Valuable for university students, educators, and scholars seeking authoritative reference material and structured subject mastery.
Why Readers Pick This Edition
- You’ll love this book for how boldly it reframes a familiar story. Instead of one Partition, you explore five seismic breaks that reshaped South Asia and the wider region. Written with cinematic clarity yet grounded in rigorous scholarship, it reads like a compelling narrative while serving as a premium reference work. If you care about empire, borders, and how history still shapes today’s politics, this is an essential, thought‑provoking read you’ll return to again and again.
- Published by William Collins (10 April 2025); HarperCollins Publishers; enquiries@harpercollins.ie.
- Language: English.
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About This Book ** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **''A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian'' PETER FRANKOPAN''Remarkable … The prose is vivid, the storytelling cinematic'' GUARDIAN‘This book is a revelation … both original and important'' MISHAL HUSAINA history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the ‘Indian Empire’, or more simply as the Raj.It was the British Empire’s crown jewel, a vast dominion stretching from the Red...
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