In a recent podcast, #SamDalrymple and Dinyar Patel discuss how modern nationalisms erased centuries of cosmopolitan connections across the Indian Ocean, and how South Asia’s violent history of partitions serves as a warning in an era of hypernationalism.

Listen here: scroll.in/article/1089...

Shattered Lands Surprises, Though Not Pleasantly While reading Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and The Making of Modern Asia which my aged father gave me for my birthday this year, I was thinking that this is a book for international readers since the history of India’s partitions has been told many times. But through the first chapter itself, I was surprised to learn about the “Indian Empire”, which is how the British referred to the vast swathes of territory they controlled, from Aden and southern Arabia in the West, to Burma in the East.

My observations on Sam Dalrymple's book, Shattered Lands and why it suffers from serious inaccuracies and omissions.

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