Sam Dalrymple | Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

Sam Dalrymple discusses his new book, Shattered Lands | Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia, a bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.

Sam Dalrymple is a historian, filmmaker, and cofounder of Project Dastaan, a peace-building initiative that reconnects refugees displaced by the 1947 partition of India. He graduated from the University of Oxford as a Persian and Sanskrit scholar, and lives in Delhi.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in South Asian Studies (OWNER)