01979cam a2200229 i 4500999001700000020001800017020001500035082001500050100003200065245008200097260003200179300004300211504006700254520117300321650002301494650003001517650001601547650001701563650002901580942001201609952012801621  c37341d37341  a9788194879053  a161219858904a954bVIJ-M1 aVijayan, Suchitra,eauthor.10aMidnight's borders :ba people's history of modern India /cSuchitra Vijayan.  aNew Delhi:bThompson,c2021  axv, 315 pages :billustrations, maps ;  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.  a"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. 0aGeopoliticszIndia 7aHISTORY / Asia / General. 7aBoundaries. 7aGeopolitics. 7aPolitics and government.  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCcCARTd2022-11-30e7g510.27l0o954 VIJ-Mp52597r2022-11-30 00:00:00v699.00w2022-11-30yBK