Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

A Financial Times, NPR, and BBC History Best Book of the Year

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 Empire’s crown jewel, home to a quart...