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Shattered Lands Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia Fauna Then an unexpected encounter withA history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it. As recently as 1928, a vast swathe of Asia India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, Bhutan, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait were bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the Indian Empire, or more simply as the Raj. It was the British Empires crown jewel, a vast dominion stretching from the Red Sea to the jungles of