Midnights Descendants - 9780007326587

Name: Midnights Descendants - 9780007326587
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollins Publishers

Midnights DescendantsSouth Asia from Partition to the Present Day\nAuthor(s): John Keay\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: William Collins\nISBN-13: 9780007326587, 978-0007326587\nSynopsis\nAn epic narrative history that compares and contrasts the fortunes of all the countries that make up South Asia.\n\nIf British India had not been partitioned in 1947, its population would today be the worlds largest. At [url] billion, Midnights Descendants (the offspring of those affected by the midnight hour Partition) already outnumber Europeans and Chinese; and they are growing faster than either. They comprise all the peoples of what is now called South Asia (the preferred term for the partitioned subcontinent of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, plus Nepal and Sri Lanka).\n\nMidnights Descendants is the first history of the region as a whole. Correlating and contrasting the fortunes of all the constituent nations over the last six decades af.