00928nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003200041245003800073260003100111300003400142520061100176773003100787260514b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by  TCA Ranghavan   aLong shadows of imperial retreat   aBiblio: A Review of Books   a30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.6-7  aShattered Lands: Five partitions and the making of modern Asia. by Sam Dalrymple, Fourth Estate Harper Collins publishers India, 2025, 520 pp. Rs.799 (HB). ISBN 978-936989-462-8. 



The history Dalrymple so engagingly rates is in fact one of declination and imperial retreat and the generically violence that often accompanied it. Parties, especially the rebalances are a vital subset of this history. Since the 1970s we have gained a better understanding of such imperial or quasi imperial retreats the US from Vietnam, the Soviets from Afghanistan, the US again from Iraq and Afghanistan. –Reproduced   aBiblio: A Review of Books