Walter Reid's recently published study Fighting Retreat: Winston Churchill and India, has generated...
Author - Zareer Masani
How the British saved India’s classical history
In India, a generation has been brought up on the academic Edward Said’s unhistorical prejudices...
The Elgin marbles and the rot of ‘decolonisation’
The proposed return to Greece, in the guise of loans, of some of the British Museum’s most iconic...
The Koh-i-Noor belongs in Britain, not India
Who owns the world’s most famous diamond? India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran might could dispute...
The Partition Tragedy and its long shadow, 1947-2022
The Channel 4 documentary India 1947: Partition in Colour features the view that the disastrous...
THE BRITISH RAJ: An Assessment
India exemplified a model of indirect governance that the British Empire perfected and which...
An Economic History of India 1707-1857, by Tirthankar Roy
India’s leading economic historian disproves today’s anti-colonialist polemics as well as the...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
A new book by William Dalrymple is bound to be well-written and exhaustively researched. This...
Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: History, Conscience &...
With a double chair in history at Stanford University, it may seem surprising that the author...
Jon Wilson, India Conquered: Britain’s Raj & the Chaos of...
Yet another history of the Raj invites comparison with its two most distinguished predecessors...
