Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

A good, easy to read book on how the British exited their Indian empire and left behind a fractured subcontinent.

There are a lot of words on the end of the British empire in India, but many of them suffer from lack of access or a bias towards some of the actors in the bloody saga.

Why are there two countries in the first place? Pakistani’s would have you think its because muslims couldn’t

What was created, then, in East Bengal, soon to be East Pakistan and afterward Bangladesh, was a nation deliberately designed to be incapable of supporting itself. At least one half of Pakistan was set up to fail.