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SHATTERED LANDS : Five Partitions and the Making of the Modern Asia (Record no. 195822)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789369894628
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Terms of availability Purchased
Note Mathrubhumi Books, Kaloor
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.042
Item number DAL/SH
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Personal name Dalrymple, Sam
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Title SHATTERED LANDS : Five Partitions and the Making of the Modern Asia
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Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Harper Collins
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2025
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Size of unit 519
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General note <br/><br/>A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 forts from the Bab el-Mandab to the Himalayas.<br/><br/>And 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Its legacies include civil wars in Burma and Sri Lanka, ongoing insurgencies in Kashmir, Baluchistan, 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.<br/><br/>Sam Dalrymple's stunning narrative 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.<br/>
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History & geography 
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History if India
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Partition of India
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History of Asia
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element India and neighboring south Asian countries
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element 1947–1971 
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element 1947-1964 (Nehru)
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Koha item type Lending
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Non-fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks 2025-07-08 Purchased 799.00 735,2025/07/08 7 7 954.042 DAL/SH E1101704 2026-09-26 2026-08-14 2026-08-14 2025-07-08 Lending