{"product_id":"shattered-lands-five-partitions-and-the-making-of-modern-asia","title":"Shattered Lands - Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages: \u003c\/strong\u003e650\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCategory: \u003c\/strong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tab1\" class=\"ls-tab ls-text-description active\" style=\"line-height: 2 !important; text-align: justify !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003e'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian'\u003c\/span\u003e PETER FRANKOPAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003e‘This book is a revelation … both original and important' \u003c\/span\u003eMISHAL HUSAIN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eA history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIt 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 Himalayas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eShattered Lands\u003c\/span\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eIts 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eSam 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003e‘A stunning achievement. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important; font-style: italic !important;\"\u003eShattered Lands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003e 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’ \u003c\/span\u003eTHANT MYINT-U\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"padding: 0px; margin-top: -4px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(15, 17, 17); font-family: 'Amazon Ember', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003e‘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’ \u003c\/span\u003eRAMACHANDRA GUHA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sam Dalrymple","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68383343214843,"sku":null,"price":1800.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/4301\/5163\/files\/shattered-lands.jpg?v=1792832031","url":"https:\/\/bookshaven.shop\/products\/shattered-lands-five-partitions-and-the-making-of-modern-asia","provider":"Books Haven","version":"1.0","type":"link"}