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Podcast: New Books in South Asian Studies
Episode: Suchitra Vijayan, "Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India" (Melville House, 2021)
Description: Borders are “important”: they define, in legal terms, who we are, our identity, and our rights. Except borders are rarely imposed with any thought to the people actually living there. And once a border is imposed, it can radically change the lives of those who live alongside it, dividing communities forever more.India’s border, imposed by colonial authorities and disputed by successor governments, makes this clear. Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (Context / Melville House, 2021) sees author Suchitra Vijayan travel along India’s vast land border to meet the people who live there, and investigat...