Joya Chatterji — новинки

'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE'The story of South Asia told with verve, wit and brilliance' ANURADHA ROYBased on decades of scholarship, this is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th centuryShadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj through independence and partition to the forging of the modern nations of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Unlike other histories of the region which concentrate exclusively on politics, here food, leisure and the household are given as much importance as nationhood, migration and the state.Thematic rather than chronological, each chapter…