Essays on modern Indian history and the legacy of Partition.Partition's Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji's finest and most influential essays. "Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations," she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book.Chatterji's first book, Bengal Divided, shifted the focus from Muslim fanaticism as...

** WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2024 **** LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 **This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'Chatterji writes with infectious relish' DOMINIC SANDBROOKShadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj throug...

India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the Bengal delta itself. A similar number were internally displaced, while others moved to the Middle East, North America and Europe.Using a creative interdisciplinary approach combining his...