New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- Did you know that the India of the 1920s was very very different, compared to the country that we see today, being two and a half times larger than the Republic of India. This colonial entity, known as the Raj or the Indian Empire, stretched all the way from Aden in modern Yemen in the west, governed from Bombay, to Rangoon (now Yangon) in what is now Myanmar in the east.

In the latest episode of The Success Code, historian, writer, and filmmaker, Sam Dalrymple, spoke to Rushank Shah, Promoter of Hubtown about his new book, Shattered Lands - Five Partitions and the Making of Modern India. Dalrymple offered a look back at the origins of the partition that reshaped the Indian subcontinent, arguing that the creation of...