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Dec 22, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Parmy Olson |Joya Chatterji |Nathan Thrall |Zach Weinersmith
Below, all the books that won nonfiction book awards in 2024. Prizes we cover include the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, the Wolfson History Prize, the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Jonny Steinberg |Joya Chatterji |Nandini Das |Nicholas Radburn
recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch WINNER OF the 2024 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji To win the Wolfson History Prize, a book must be both original and accessible to the general reader.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
fivebooks.com | Joya Chatterji
Recommendations from our site “The book is about India in the 20th century, which means taking it from the late Victorian period, when it had become an empire under Queen Victoria, through to its present form, which consists of three large nations—India, Pakistan and Bangladesh—important on a worldwide scale. That is not an easy task, because the history is crowded with agendas and assumptions.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
l8r.it | Charlotte Walker |Joya Chatterji |Nandini Das |Nicholas Radburn
This morning we awake to news of the 2024 shortlist for The Wolfson History Prize. Showcasing six of the best history books from the past year, The Wolfson History Prize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK. This is its 52nd year celebrating books that demonstrate the relevance to today's society of history and historical writing.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Joya Chatterji
I was seven years old during the 1971 war between India and Pakistan. My first political memory is of this short war, which lasted barely two weeks from 3 to 16 December. The blacked-out windows of our home in Delhi, the wailing air-raid sirens, the darkened tops of cars’ headlamps that made them look like Noddy-cars gazing coyly downwards—these are among my most vivid early recollections.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Joya Chatterji |Andrew J. Nathan |Wei Cui |Minxin Pei
In This Review In This Review Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth CenturyThis historiographic plum pudding is full of delights, ranging from memories of Chatterji’s childhood in a multigenerational compound in Bengal to a deep history of the violent politics of division that separated Pakistan from India in 1947 and Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
politicshome.com | Joya Chatterji |Noa Hoffman
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A brilliant analysis of political and social change, Joya Chatterji’s history of South Asia is one of the most enjoyable reads around
Among serious histories of India, this book is a real surprise. The author is Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor of South Asian History at Cambridge and a life fellow of Trinity College.
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Aug 26, 2023 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | Joya Chatterji
Joya Chatterji retells the history of the South Asian 20th century as a fraught project of ‘relentless nation-making’Title: Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century; Author: Joya Chatterji; Publisher: Penguin Viking; Pages: 864; Price Rs 1,299 (hardcover)---When my brothers and I were still young enough to be told what to do, my father would insist that we all travel en famille, by train from Delhi for 40-odd hours, to spend the summer holidays in the ancestral household.
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Jul 29, 2023 | 
theprint.in | Joya Chatterji
I realise that the situation was too big for almost any person to handle satisfactorily and it came with some suddenness . . . [But] as far as I can make out, we have had to face a very definite and well-organised attempt of certain Hindu and Sikh fascist elements to overturn the Government, or at least to break up its present character. It has been something much more than a communal disturbance. Many of these people have been brutal and callous in the extreme.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
openthemagazine.com | Joya Chatterji
WHEN HIS SUPPORTERS attacked the local police station at Chauri Chaura, Gandhi decided to put a stop to non- cooperation. But the writing had been on the wall for some time. The more the Mahatma saw of Indian popular movements inspired by him and other leaders, the less he liked them. What he saw in Malabar and Chauri Chaura persuaded him that the Indian ‘masses’ lacked the discipline necessary for the rigours of non-cooperation.
