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Siddharth Singh

Paul Staniland decodes government responses to armed groups

Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation

Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation

Paul Staniland

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom /

Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

Ramachandra Guha

‘A Biographer Is an Artist under Oath,’ says Ramachandra Guha

Nandini Nair

Ramachandra Guha’s new book portrays seven westerners who joined India’s freedom movement. He speaks to Nandini Nair about today’s rebels and the meaning of patriotism

Crafting a Future: Stories of Indian Textiles and Sustainable Practices /

Crafting a Future: Stories of Indian Textiles and Sustainable Practices

Archana Shah

String Theory

Geeta Doctor

The warp and weft of the Indian subcontinent

Geeta Rahman At Championship Point /

Geeta Rahman At Championship Point

Saskya Jain

Life’s Longing for Itself

Chintan Girish Modi

Sport and religion play out on the badminton court

Annapurna Devi: The Untold Story of a Reclusive Genius /

Annapurna Devi: The Untold Story of a Reclusive Genius

Atul Merchant Jataayu

Playing to the Guru

Akhila Krishnamurthy

Atul Merchant Jataayu chronicles the musical genius and personal proclivities of his legendary teacher Annapurna Devi

‘Writing Is Somewhat a Masochistic Activity’

Antara Raghavan

M Mukundan’s award-winning biography of a city reveals Delhi’s underbelly with compassion. The author tells Antara Raghavan why a river of sorrow runs beneath his stories

A Death in Shonagachhi /

A Death in Shonagachhi

Rijula Das

Red-Light Dreams

Vikram Zutshi

A police procedural and sociological treatise set in Calcutta

The Garden of Heaven /

The Garden of Heaven

Madhulika Liddle

Set in Stone

Raunaq Saraswat

A Delhi saga spanning two hundred years foregrounds the masons and labourers

Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj /

Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj

MJ Akbar

Race, Corruption, Morality and the Making of Anglo-India

MJ Akbar

Justice Pulbandi and the hanged Maharaja

Transgender in India—Achievers and Survivors: An Ode to Transwomen /

Transgender in India—Achievers and Survivors: An Ode to Transwomen

CK Gariyali and Priyadarshini Rajkumar

Dignity for All

Nanditha Krishna

The changing status of transgenders in India

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