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Zareer Masani

Zareer Masani is a London-based historian and broadcaster. He is the author of Macaulay: Pioneer of India’s Modernization

Cover Stories
The Churchill Paradox

Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future

22 December 2023
Essay
Chronicle of My Death Foretold

In defence of dignity in departure

03 November 2023
Judging British Imperialism by its Aims and Intentions
Essay
Judging British Imperialism by its Aims and Intentions

The morality of empire

20 January 2023
Essay
The Good Orientalists

India would be a poorer place without the work of British archaeologists

26 August 2022
Cover Stories
The Birth of Modern India

Nationalist tropes and imperial assumptions miss the Raj’s real economic impact

15 October 2021
The Ideal Against the Political
Essay
The Ideal Against the Political

The making—and the almost unmaking—of the Constitution

16 July 2021
Books
The First Draft

An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions

30 April 2021
Imperial Inheritance
Books
Imperial Inheritance

Has the empire been the default model for global governance?

21 August 2020
The Sword of Nehru
Books
The Sword of Nehru

Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?

24 January 2020
Why India Owes Kashmir Independence
Essay
Why India Owes Kashmir Independence

A war we cannot win

09 August 2019

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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