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MIDNIGHT’S BORDERS A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA

Suchitra Vijayan

Starting in 2013, the journalist and barrister Suchitra Vijayan spent seven years travelling along India’s borders, including visits to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the India-China border. Drawing on her reportage as well as her experiences working at a war-crimes tribunal, her book reveals how local memory,

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