Roderick Matthews
Britain did not take easily to its diminished status after 1947. Britons loved the men that India had made of them. India held mythic status in the minds of upper-class Brits. Nothing quite like that has appeared to take India’s place
Rana Preet Gill’s work offers a wealth of detail—material that an alert reader might well shape into probing questions
Diwan Purnaiah’s legacy survived the British only to be undone by Indians
The Indian War of Independence 1857 and Hind Swaraj continue to provoke us
A national monument to the victims of the 1943 Bengal Famine can enshrine cooperative federalism
How the original model of a welfare state created by the Marathas was destroyed