Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Burma in 1937, the Gulf states, India and Pakistan, then Bangladesh: five partitions treated as one connected process that drew the map of modern Asia.
Not one partition but five, running from Burma leaving the Raj in 1937 through the Gulf states, India and Pakistan, and finally Bangladesh, traced as a single connected process rather than as separate national tragedies. Dalrymple is particularly good on the role of the Middle East in the history of the Raj, which most accounts leave out entirely.
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Tyler Cowen
Are you excited by the prospect of learning more about why Burma split off from the rest of the Raj in 1937? If so, this is the book for you. It also has good coverage on the role of the Middle East in the history of the Raj.
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