TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vijayan,Suchitra
TI  - Midnight's Borders: a people's history of modern India 
SN  - 9781612198583 (hbk.)
AV  - DS480.84 .V498 2021
U1  - 954 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Chennai
PB  - Westland  Publications Private Limited, 
KW  - Vijayan, Suchitra
KW  - Geopolitics
KW  - India
KW  - 1947-
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Boundaries
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Rivers in literature
KW  - Agnihotrī, Anitā
KW  - Bengali fiction
KW  - Creative nonfiction
KW  - Informational works
KW  - Travel writing
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Anecdotes
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index
N2  - "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 violent history still playing out there. In fact, India as we know it didn't exist until the map of the subcontinent was redrawn in the middle of the 20th century--the powerful repercussions of which are still being felt across South Asia. To tell the story of political borders in the subcontinent, Suchitra Vijayan spent seven years travelling India's 9,000-mile land border. Now, in this stunning work of narrative reportage, she shares what she learned on that groundbreaking journey. With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan shows us the forgotten people and places in the borderlands and brings us face-to-face with the legacy of colonialism and the stain of extreme violence and corruption. The result is the ground-level portrait of modern India we've been missing."--Publisher's description
ER  -