Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century-Fast Shipping

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Title: Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Author: Joya Chatterji

ISBN: 9780300272680

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2023

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan
Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History – Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction – Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize
“Chatterji tells the story of the subcontinent’s recent history in a fluent sweeping arc. . . . Wonderfully enjoyable to read . . . [and] sure to become a classic.”–William Dalrymple, The GuardianThis radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region’s unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century’s inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and technological innovation contributed to South Asia’s tumultuous twentieth century. Chatterji weaves together elements of her autobiography and family history; stories of such legendary figures as Tagore, Jinnah, Gandhi, and Nehru; and, in particular, the accounts of the many who were left behind and marginalized in relentless nation-building examines the countries’ mirroring patterns in state building, social and cultural life, modes of leisure, consumption, and oppression, and offers a timely course correction to our understanding of the dynamics of South Asian history. It reframes the events of the twentieth century that are continuing to play out in the present day.