Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-01-16 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins The first modern history of all South Asia's peoples.If British India had not been partitioned in 1947. its population would today be the world's largest At c1 .5 billion. Midnight's 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). 'Midnight's 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 affords unique insights into what is hailed as one of the world's most dynamic regions.John Keay is...