Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Helen Oyeyemi and where the Allies learned

and where the Allies learned

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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Helen Oyeyemi and where the Allies learnedA history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. 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. It was the British Empires crown jewel, a vast dominion stretching from the Red Sea to the jungles of