Shattered Lands

From Bedside Reading by Bedside Reading Podcast

May 5, 2026 · 36 min · Season 12 · Episode 4

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with GP Zalan Alam about the book 'Shattered Lands' by Sam Dalrymple, focusing on the partitions of British India and its human interest stories.

Send us Fan Mail A warm welcome back today to Greater Manchester GP, Zalan Alam. Today we are talking about Shattered Lands by Sam Dalrymple, which is an incredibly readable and very accessible, though enormous book about the five partitions of British India. It is something that really captivated me. There are so many brilliant human interest stories and it's really made me understand some parts of history much, much better than I ever did before. It's undoubtedly given me a l...

People in this episode

Guest: Zalan Alam

Topics covered

British history
partitions of India
human interest stories
accessible literature
historical understanding

Keywords

Shattered Lands
Sam Dalrymple
British India
partitions
history
human interest

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Shattered Lands

Places: British India