Truths we have forgotten about India’s Partition | Shattered Lands with Sam Dalrymple

As recently as 1928, a single empire — stretching from Yemen to Burma, from the Arabian Sea to the Himalayas — was united under one name: The Indian Empire.
It was home to a quarter of humanity, shared one passport, one army, one rupee… and then, within fifty years, it shattered into twelve modern nations.

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In this thought-provoking episode, host Raghav Sharma sits down with historian and author Sam Dalrymple to discuss his groundbreaking book “Shattered Lands”, which unravels how the British Raj fractured into the countries we know today — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

Together, they explore the untold story of how this empire was built — and then broken — through wars, revolutions, betrayals, and visions of nationhood.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Discovering India’s Forgotten History
09:38 – Partition Beyond Punjab and Bengal
12:05 – Five Partitions Before 1947
20:08 – Gandhi’s Vision of Bharatvarsha
33:04 – The Long March: India’s Forgotten Exodus
37:32 – Why Anti-Indian Sentiment Repeats Globally
47:09 – How India Helped Win WWII
54:12 – Bengal Famine & Churchill’s Role
1:02:12 – The Complexity of Bose & the INA
1:06:12 – The Most Disturbing Gandhi Controversies
1:20:00 – Britain's subjugation Tactics

[Keywords: British Raj, Indian Independence, Hindu Muslim division 1947, Stories from Partition survivors, Indian subcontinent history, Indian Independence Day 1947, Colonial India, Mountbatten and Nehru, History podcast India, India Pakistan history, South Asian history explained, Real story of India’s division]