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

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

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 ...

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’ ...

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.

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 ...

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 May 10, 1857, a self-absorbed imperial British power faced an historic challenge when India’s presumably imbecile impotent ‘natives’ rose to rebel against the British occupiers of India.