{"product_id":"midnights-borders-a-peoples-history-of-modern-india-9781612198583","title":"Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMidnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India\u003c\/strong\u003e by Vijayan, Suchitra. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781612198583.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Booklist \"Top 10 History Book of 2022\"\n\nThe first true peoples history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders\n\nSharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the worlds largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the worlds biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people--especially those living in disputed border regions.\n\nSuchitra Vijayan traveled Indias vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries.\n\nIn this stunning work of narrative reportage--featuring over 40 original photographs--we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-mans-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India.\n\nWith profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country weve long been missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953467355189,"sku":"ByrdShop_1612198589","price":25.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781612198583_dd04498e-9353-448d-b216-e76276a7f617.jpg?v=1781313748","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/midnights-borders-a-peoples-history-of-modern-india-9781612198583","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}