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The Union: An Alternate History of India (1946 - 2025)
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Publisher: Notion Press
Pages: 516
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In July 1946, one sentence could have broken India in two. It was never spoken.
So begins the world of The Union: a India that was never partitioned. No Pakistan, no Bangladesh, no blood-soaked trains of 1947. Instead, a single vast federation stretching from the Khyber to the Naga hills, where Lahore and Karachi and Dacca are ordinary domestic cities, and a billion and a half people of every faith have spent eighty years learning the hardest thing a country can attempt: how to live together.
Narrated from the present by a journalist whose own grandfather altered that fateful moment, The Union follows four families - Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Bengali - across the decades of a nation spared its founding catastrophe. A grain merchant who feeds a country and cannot forgive it for taking his son. A boy who inherits a peace he never had to fight for. A strongman who rises, at last, to sell a forgetful people the dismantling of the very thing that saved them.
Sweeping, intimate, and unnervingly timely, The Union asks a question that belongs to every country in every age: when the peace is threatened, will enough of us remember why it was built - and choose to stand?
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