Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Ingram Publisher Services The objective is death

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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Ingram Publisher Services The objective is deathA Financial Times, NPR, and BBC History Best Book of the Year A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the Indian Empire or, more simply, as the Raj. It was the British Empires crown jewel, home to a quarter of the