Shadows at Noon

Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research and scholarship which explores the key strands of South Asian history in the twentieth century with clarity and authority. Unlike other narrative histories of the subcontinent that concentrate exclusively on politics here food leisure and the household are given equal importance to discussions of nationhood the development of the state and patterns of migration.. While it tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj to indep...See More