Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India / Suchitra Vijayan.
Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India / Suchitra Vijayan.
Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India / Suchitra Vijayan.
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Publisher
Brooklyn : Melville House, 2021.
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G 2021/1450
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Language
English
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Physical content
xv, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue: (my) Ishmael -- The Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Sar Hawza: trapped in the colonizer's map -- The India-Bangladesh border. Panitar: playing cricket in no-man's-land ; Near Jalpaiguri: "they stole my dreams" -- The India-China border. Tawang: cartographic confusion -- The India-Myanmar bord...
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Publisher
Brooklyn : Melville House, 2021.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven year, 9,000 mile journey across its many contested borders. Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. Yet most of us don't understand it, or the viol...
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Midnight's borders : a people's history of modern India / Suchitra Vijayan.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-299) and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/1450
Record Identifier
74VKaVb750XM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaVb750XM
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ISBN
1612198589
9781612198583
DDC
954
MMS ID
991024416510502626
