01135nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100003900060245003800099260003100137300003400168520061100202773003100813906001700844942000700861952010900868  c533327d533327260514b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aReviewed by  TCA Ranghavan 960495  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   aBOOK REVIEW   cAR  00102ddc40709408497aIIPAbIIPAd2026-05-14h30(7-8), Jul-Sep, 2025: p.6-7pAR138839r2026-05-14yAR