Shattered Lands'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian' PETER FRANKOPAN 'This book is a revelation both original and important' MISHAL HUSAIN A history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the Indian