Shattered Lands (Record no. 66594)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20251110143910.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789369894628
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Kabdwal Book International
Distributor address Chandivali Road, Andheri East, Mumbai
Bill Number KBI-39158
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 956.91 DAL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Dalrymple, Sam.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Shattered Lands
Remainder of title : Five Partitions and The Making of Modern Asia.
Statement of responsibility, etc /Sam Dalrymple.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Gurugram
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Harper Collins
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2025.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 520p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 559
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.<br/><br/>As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia--India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait--were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the 'Indian Empire', or more simply as the Raj.<br/><br/>It was the British Empire's crown jewel, a vast dominion stretching from the Red Sea to the jungles of Southeast Asia, home to a quarter of the world's population and encompassing the largest Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian communities on the planet. Its people used the Indian rupee, were issued passports stamped 'Indian Empire', and were guarded by armies garrisoned forts from the Bab el-Mandab to the Himalayas.<br/><br/>And then, in the space of just fifty years, the Indian Empire shattered. Five partitions tore it apart, carving out new nations, redrawing maps, and leaving behind a legacy of war, exile and division.<br/><br/>Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling dominion became twelve modern nations. How maps were redrawn in boardrooms and on battlefields, by politicians in London and revolutionaries in Delhi, by kings in remote palaces and soldiers in trenches.<br/><br/>Its legacies include civil wars in Burma and Sri Lanka, ongoing insurgencies in Kashmir, Baluchistan, Northeast India, and the Rohingya genocide. It is a history of ambition and betrayal, of forgotten wars and unlikely alliances, of borders carved with ink and fire. And, above all, it is the story of how the map of modern Asia was made.<br/><br/>Sam Dalrymple's stunning narrative is based on deep archival research, previously untranslated private memoirs, and interviews in English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Konyak, Arabic and Burmese. From portraits of the key political players to accounts of those swept up in these wars and mass migrations, Shattered Lands is vivid, compelling, thought-provoking history at its best.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Politics and government.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Syria
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sam Dalrymple
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Books
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 10/11/2025 Kabdwal Book International 559.00 1 956.91 DAL 31169 07/12/2025 27/11/2025 10/11/2025 Books

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