Midnight's descendants : a history of South Asia since partition /

"In Midnight's Descendants, John Keay presents the first general history of present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and its peoples. The book examines the complex web of affiliations--of kinship, locality, language, tribe, clan, profession, and caste--that shape relat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Keay, John (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Subjects:	South Asia > History. South Asia > Politics and government. South Asia > Relations. Regionalism > South Asia. Geopolitics > South Asia. South Asia > Social conditions. HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.

Table of Contents:

Casting the die
Counting the cost
"Who has not heard of the Vale of Cashmere?"
Past conditional
Reality check
Power to the people
An ill-starred conjunction
Two-way tickets, double standards
Things fall apart
Outside the gates
India astir.