Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji

A groundbreaking view of South Asian history in the twentieth century that underlines the similarities and intertwined cultures of India and Pakistan Winner of the 2024 Wolfson History Prize • Winner of the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History • Shortlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize • Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction “Chatterji tells the story of the subcontinent’s recent history in a fluent sweeping arc. . . . Wonderfully enjoyable to read . . . [and] sure to become a classic.”—William Dalrymple, The Guardian This radically original and ambitious history of the Indian subcontinent explores the region’s unique twentieth-century history and foregrounds the deep connections, rather than the well-publicized fissures, between the cultures of India and Pakistan. Taking the partitions of British India rather than the two world wars as the century’s inflection points, Joya Chatterji examines how issues of nationalism, internal and external migration, and