In India, a generation has been brought up on the academic Edward Said’s unhistorical prejudices...
Author - Zareer Masani
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...
Jon Wilson, India Conquered: Britain’s Raj & the Chaos of...
Yet another history of the Raj invites comparison with its two most distinguished predecessors...
Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: History, Conscience &...
With a double chair in history at Stanford University, it may seem surprising that the author...
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...
Clive: The Man Who Would Be King
Growing up in post-colonial Bombay as a Midnight’s Child in the 1950s, for me Robert Clive, the man...