Shattered lands: Five partitions and the making of modern Asia (Record no. 359589)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250929110313.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789369894628 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | AACR-II |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 954.042 DAL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dalrymple, Sam |
| 9 (RLIN) | 15409 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Shattered lands: Five partitions and the making of modern Asia |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Publishers |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 520 p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.<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/>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/>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/>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/>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/>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. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History & Geography |
| 9 (RLIN) | 15410 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Partition of India |
| 9 (RLIN) | 15411 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History of Asia |
| 9 (RLIN) | 15412 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| 2025-12-09 | 2 | 954.042 DAL | 179912 | 2025-12-24 | 2025-12-09 | 799.00 | 2025-09-29 | Books | Not Missing | Dewey Decimal Classification | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2025-09-29 | ||
| 2025-12-10 | 1 | 954.042 DAL | 179960 | 2025-12-10 | 799.00 | 2025-12-08 | Books | Not Missing | Dewey Decimal Classification | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2025-12-08 |