{"product_id":"shattered-lands-paperback","title":"Shattered Lands (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA history of modern South Asia told through five\npartitions that reshaped it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAs recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia – India,\nPakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar,\nBahrain and Kuwait – were bound together under a single imperial banner, an\nentity known officially as the ‘Indian Empire’, or more simply as the Raj.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt was the British Empire’s crown jewel, a vast dominion\nstretching from the Red Sea to the jungles of Southeast Asia, home to a quarter\nof the world’s population and encompassing the largest Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and\nZoroastrian communities on the planet. Its people used the Indian rupee, were\nissued passports stamped ‘Indian Empire’, and were guarded by armies garrisoned\nin forts from the Bab el-Mandeb to the Himalayas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAnd then, in the space of just fifty years, the Indian\nEmpire shattered. Five partitions tore it apart, carving out new nations,\nredrawing maps, and leaving behind a legacy of war, exile and division.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eShattered Lands\u003c\/i\u003e, for the first time, presents the\nwhole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling\ndominion became twelve modern nations. How maps were redrawn in boardrooms and\non battlefields, by politicians in London and revolutionaries in Delhi, by\nkings in remote palaces and soldiers in trenches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIts legacies include civil war in Burma and ongoing\ninsurgencies in Kashmir, Baluchistan and Northeast India, and the Rohingya\ngenocide. It is a history of ambition and betrayal, of forgotten wars and\nunlikely alliances, of borders carved with ink and fire. And, above all, it is\nthe story of how the map of modern Asia was made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSam Dalrymple’s stunning history is based on deep archival\nresearch, previously untranslated private memoirs, and interviews in English,\nHindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Konyak, Arabic and Burmese. From portraits of\nthe key political players to accounts of those swept up in these wars and mass\nmigrations, Shattered Lands is vivid, compelling, thought-provoking history at\nits best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45673933963471,"sku":"9780008466855","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_c66c2a82-9236-40a0-babd-cbdd2c6884e0.jpg?v=1785719531","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/shattered-lands-paperback","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}