British Empire

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

In Defence of the Empire

Roderick Matthews

Shashi Tharoor misses history for the sake of wounded national pride

Olga Gray, Indian Comrades and Other Such Thrills

MJ Akbar

Why didn’t they fire poison darts at Nasser? The first book based on declassified British Intelligence is a romp through the secret chambers of the Cold War

Skyfall

Ajit Duara

A very different Bond film full of nostalgia for the good ol’ days of the British Empire

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British Empire

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

In Defence of the Empire

Olga Gray, Indian Comrades and Other Such Thrills

Skyfall

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