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Zareer Masani

Zareer Masani is a historian and broadcaster. He is the author of Macaulay: Pioneer of India’s Modernisation

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
Jallianwala Bagh (13.04.1919)
Cover Stories
Jallianwala Bagh: 100 years On

One hundred years between history and memory

28 March 2019
With Mira Behn (on his left) and Madan Mohan Malaviya (in turban) at a dairy show in London, 1931
Essay
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

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

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 several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.

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