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96/100Scholars
Author:
Suchitra Vijayan
Publisher:
Melville House
Date:
May 25, 2021
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested borders.
What The Reviewers Say
Readers, regardless of how well-informed by domestic or international newspaper and media reports, might notice two things in Vijayan’s articulation of the condition at the borders on the Indian side: the discussion of the geography of the border—a geography that does not lend itself easily to the practices of partitioning—and the process of storytelling and narrating memories. Vijayan’s travels around the India-Bangladesh border provide a perfect example to discuss the geography of the borders.
For her book, Vijayan traveled about 9000 miles in the subcontinent's borderlands to show how nation-states can wreak havoc on the people who live there.
Vijayan spent years interviewing stateless refugees around the entire border of India. She uses those stories to create a candid and heartbreaking work of exposé journalism.
