Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India

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, maps and perspectives on belonging and occupation differ vastly from how these are rendered in the national imagination.

Context, Westland, Rs 699, 320 pages