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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

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
Economic Lessons From the Raj
Essay
Economic Lessons From the Raj

The myth of colonial plunder

09 August 2018
Nehru and Jinnah, 1946
Cover Stories
All for the Sake of Nehru

Jinnah’s Pakistan demand was more tactical than practical

10 May 2018
A portrait of Warren Hastings
Essay
Did Britain Educate India?

Empire of the mind

05 October 2017
Jawaharlal Nehru and Minoo Masani in 1945
Freedom Issue 2017: Essay
Throwing out Secular Nehru with the Socialist Bathwater

The end of an idea that was Indian politics’ greatest contradiction

10 August 2017
Warren Hastings
Essay
Warren Hastings ‘Loved India a Little More Than His Own Country’

On the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, let’s redeem Warren Hastings from the worst trial of history

06 April 2017

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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