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

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

The making—and the almost unmaking—of the Constitution

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

Has the empire been the default model for global governance?

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

A war we cannot win

One hundred years between history and memory

A majestic biography focuses far more on Gandhi’s relations with opponents like Ambedkar and Jinnah than with his own favourite protégé Jawaharlal Nehru

The myth of colonial plunder

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…