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Shattered Lands written by Sam Dalrymple - Book Review
What if 1947 was only one of five partitions? In this episode, we review Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia. Dalrymple argues that the British Indian Empire, once stretching from Aden to Burma, broke apart through a chain of separations: Burma, Aden and the Gulf, India and Pakistan, the princely states, and finally Bangladesh in 1971. We look at what the book gets right, where its framing is open to challenge, and whether it changes how we should think about the borders of modern Asia.
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