Shattered Land : A Journey of Partitions
Shattered Land Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Sam Dalrymple / Harper Collins 2025 We all have studied history from different perspectives as presented by different historians to the ideology they have followed like left historians , sub-altern etc. The credit to Sam goes for the fact that he has presented this book as factually as possible without any tint of ideological bias. The book is divided into 15 chapter with detailed notes, epilogue, acknowledgement notes, maps and illustrations. The book starts with the introduction of the Simon Commission and it’s visit to Bombay wherein it held deliberations with Mohammed Ali Jinnah , Sarojini Naidu and Mahatma Gandhi . The relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Jinnah soured over certain misunderstanding. The chapter introduces the readers to the personal life of Jinnah, his wife Ruttie and daughter Dina . There is interesting map which shows places visited by Simon Commission, which starts from Ad...