British Empire

SP Hinduja (1935-2023): Global Magnate

Lhendup G Bhutia

Along with his brothers, he created one of the most storied business empires with Indian roots

Travels of a Fish

Ranjit Lal

How the British introduced the trout to Indian waters

The Birth of Modern India

Zareer Masani

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

The First Draft

Zareer Masani

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

Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

Devapriya Roy

The lives of poets and explorers in the twilight of the Raj

Naipaul’s Reckoning With Empire

Bruce Gilley

The Nobel laureate’s legacy has much to say to charges of amnesia about colonialism

Reimagining Her Majesty’s Club

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Don't rule out a Meghan touch to the Commonwealth

Woes of a Warrior

Nanditha Krishna

The prince who took on the East India Company for the era’s biggest port city

A Critical Conspiracy Called Post-Colonialism

Makarand R Paranjape

Haunted by the last spectre

Across the Line

Hormis Tharakan

A richly rewarding portrait of the subcontinent through personal stories

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British Empire

SP Hinduja (1935-2023): Global Magnate

Travels of a Fish

The Birth of Modern India

The First Draft

Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

Naipaul’s Reckoning With Empire

Reimagining Her Majesty’s Club

Woes of a Warrior

A Critical Conspiracy Called Post-Colonialism

Across the Line

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