: Shattered Lands: Five Partitions & the Making of Modern Asia; Sam Dalrymple; Kolkata, Fourth Estate [Harpers Collins India], Rs 799/-. this book highlights primarily five partitions/dissections in Asia namely cessation of Burma (Myanmar) 1937 from British India, separation of Aden & Arab bay areas 1937-47, formation of East Pakistan grabbing a few eastern & western Provinces 1947, allowing Princely States an opportunity to split away from independent India and finally after a long struggle transformation of east Pakistan into Bangladesh 1971.
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