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EARLY PRAISE FOR SHATTERED LANDS:

‘This book is a revelation. Sam Dalrymple’s charting of these five moments is both original and important, adding a valuable layer to our understanding of a vast region of the world’ MISHAL HUSAIN

'Excellent … expertly examines the way the Indian empire was divided into 12 separate nation states between 1931 and 1971 … packed with riveting detail' INDEPENDENT

‘A stunning achievement. Shattered Lands reframes the story of South Asia with rare empathy and elegance, breathing life into the legacies of the partitions that shape a quarter of our world today’ THANT MYINT-U

‘This richly researched, vividly written book tells the story of how a colossal and powerful Empire was broken up into many distinct nation-states…An impressive debut by a gifted and very energetic young writer’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA

‘A vivid account that is meticulous and memorable in detail and authoritative in its ambitious sweep. This is a stunning and assured debut by an important new voice in narrative history and a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the making of modern Asia’ KAVITA PURI

‘Brilliant storytelling, exemplary history’ PHILIP MARSDEN

‘Written with a novelist’s flair and an archival historian’s research, Shattered Lands captures the violence and the ruptures that shaped South Asia through partition. It is astonishing that this story has not been told before. Both essential and irresistible reading – an unputdownable book’ EUGENE ROGAN

'Surprising, relevant, finely-judged, diligently-researched and brilliantly told, Shattered Lands does what the best histories do and presents a story you might think you know, but in a way that will be a revelation. This is one of the most assured and accomplished debuts I have read in many years' ANTHONY SATTIN

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