Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day - Softcover

John Keay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007326580 ISBN 13: 9780007326587

Publisher: William Collins, 2015

Synopsis

Dispersed across India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, midnight's descendants - the generations born since the midnight partition of British India in 1947 - are the world's fastest-growing population. This first comprehensive history of this complex and inter-connected region charts its uneven and often fraught path to modernization; the volatile relationship between India and Pakistan; the rise of religious fundamentalism; the bitter wars in Kashmir and Sri Lanka; and the area's increasing influence on global economics and geopolitics.

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Review:

Keay s excellent new book on the modern history of South Asia plunges the reader head first into some wildly swirling currents ... His work is descriptive, panoramic, a large-scale survey of titanic struggles and the extraordinary survival of democracies Spectator

This absorbing, important history of South Asia over the six decades since British India was partitioned is the first time a book has been written on the history of this region as a whole Independent

A manifest triumph Literary Review

From the reviews of India: A History

It is hard to imagine anyone succeeding more gracefully in producing a balanced overview than John Keay has done in India ... a book that is as fluent and readable as it is up-to-date and impartial. Hardly a page passes without some fascinating nugget or surprising fact William Dalrymple, Guardian

Certainly the most balanced and lucid history... his passion for India shines through and illuminates every page... puts Keay in the front rank of Indian historiographers. Charles Allen, Spectator

Keay s astute commentary on the development of Indian history is a delight... one of the best general studies of the subcontinent. Andrew Lycett, Sunday Times

--Andrew Lycett, Sunday Times

About the Author:

John Keay was formerly a special correspondent for the Economist, and a documentary-maker for the BBC. He is the author of several books on the Indian subcontinent, including the bestselling India: A History . He lives in Argyll, Scotland.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0007326580
• ISBN 13: 9780007326587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416