Did you know parts of the Gulf and Burma were once governed as part of British India? Most people think of Partition as a single event that split India and Pakistan, but the reality is far more complex. The British Indian Empire once stretched far beyond the borders we associate with South Asia today, and its breakup happened through a series of political separations, partitions, and administrative fractures that shaped multiple regions in very different ways. I’ve been reading Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple and learning so much about the history of the Raj that I genuinely never knew before. I’m turning some of those stories into a three-part series exploring the forgotten borders, partitions, and afterlives of the British Indian Empire. #history #pakistan #decolonize #southasia #booktok