Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan ...

Ahead of the 2026 Assembly polls, RSS-BJP are trying to gain political benefits from overstating their role in ‘opposing’ ...

In this gripping extract from historian Sam Dalrymple’s 'Shattered Lands', the last days of the Raj come alive — through ...

We think of the Raj as controlling only India and Pakistan, and its infamous breakup happening in August 1947. It’s a story ...

Sam Dalrymple’s Shattered Lands is an imperious view of the British Raj's collapse, redeemed by its forgotten stories of ...

The British aristocrat, daughter of Louis Mountbatten and Edwina Ashley, may appear to have always lived in the shadow of her parents, of Queen Elizabeth II — whom she served as lady-in-waiting — or ...

Sam Dalrymple’s ‘Shattered Lands’ presents, for the first time, the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade.

The London-bound Air India aircraft, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, crashed on a medical college hostel soon after taking off from the western city of Ahmedabad. Only one passenger survived the crash ...

But in the Viceroy’s office, he listened as Mountbatten talked, scribbled questions on a pad of paper, but uttered no sound. The Mahatma was observing his day of silence.

As Mountbatten bulldozed his way forward, Davar made a final, desperate attempt to persuade Jinnah to reject the viceroy’s blueprint and preserve a united India. He might have succeeded—had a crucial ...

On June 2, 1947, India’s top leaders gathered for one of the most consequential meetings in the country’s history at the house of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India.

In a corridor of the City Palace, photos of Jai alongside the last viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, and a young Prince Philip, all in full polo gear, adorn the wall.