The Good Orientalists
India would be a poorer place without the work of British archaeologists
26 August 2022
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
The making—and the almost unmaking—of the Constitution
16 July 2021
The First Draft
An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions
30 April 2021
Imperial Inheritance
Has the empire been the default model for global governance?
21 August 2020
The Sword of Nehru
Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?
24 January 2020
Jallianwala Bagh: 100 years On
One hundred years between history and memory
28 March 2019
The Man and the Mahatma
A majestic biography focuses far more on Gandhi’s relations with opponents like Ambedkar and Jinnah than with his own favourite protégé Jawaharlal Nehru
27 September 2018
Authors
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
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 is the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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