Joya Chatterji

Shadows At Noon tells the story of South Asia's twentieth century in eight chapters, authored by the Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at Cambridge University, an undisputed authority on the subject. This book differs from standard narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics. Here, nature, objects, technologies, cultures, and people's evolving relationships to these...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR HISTORY 'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' — WILLIAM DALRYMPLE This is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century. Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj through independence and partition to the forging of the modern nations of...