Historian, filmmaker and co-founder of Project Dastaan, which reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 partition of India, Sam Dalrymple's debut book Shattered Lands explores the collapse of the Indian Empire and how five major partitions between 1931 and 1971 created twelve modern nations.
Shattered Lands traces how the decisions made in boardrooms and on battlefields reshaped a quarter of the world - from India and Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates and Burma.
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