Bal Gangadhar Tilak as the radical in politics and a gradualist on social reform

Bringing the legend of the warrior king to a new generation

Funded by maharajahs, admired by moderates while also welcoming the extremist vision, in his domain, the artist manifested a nationalism of his own

A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists

A tale of divorce and diverse husbands in 19th century Kerala

The making of a revolutionary

The White-Brown nexus comes alive in William Dalrymple’s compelling portrait of the East India Company

Redeeming history from men who mythify other men

The Hindu-Muslim rivalries for power in the Deccan were not examples of communal acrimony

Liberating India from the ghost of Orientalism