Book about Partition

[MinnieMountain]

I'd love to know more about Partition in India- the reasons, the build-up to it, the chaos and the after effects.

Can anyone recommend a book about it please? I'd prefer one by an Indian/ Indian diaspora author given that it's Indian history.

Midnight's Furies by Nisid Hajari. Had the fortune to hear him lecture on this and he was fascinating

Thank you @EngineerClaireH . That's just what I wanted.

Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

Freedom at Midnight

Not as interesting or detailed as I hoped it would be but the BBC journalist Mishal Husein wrote a book called Broken Threads about her grandparents who lived in India and what became Pakistan in the earlier 20th Century so saw through colonialism, independence and partition.

I love Midnights Children @IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads .

Sorry for the delay (I had to find the book!) My partner and I both loved this.

Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple, published last year, covers a wider territorial area than modern India (Gulf States to Burma, all regarded as 'India' in the early 20th c) and uses a lot of original material. It got very good reviews.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/shattered-lands/sam-dalrymple/9780008466817

I'll look that up once I've finished Midnight's Furies, which I'm really enjoying, @Bjorkdidit.

Thank you @DeanElderberrybut I'm specifically interested in books by Indian authors.

I know, but he spent a lot of his childhood in India and works with friends whose families were displaced from their homelands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Dastaan

He was featured in a six-part series of the Empire podcast if you want to try a taster.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/278-partition-indias-break-with-burma-part-1/id1639561921?i=1000720594116

I'm aware thank you. I'm a big fan of Dalrymple Snrs book about the East India Company.