Lord Mountbatten

The Lost Dominion

Sudeep Paul

The forgotten United Bengal proposal and its lingering aftertaste

Mountbatten’s Hidden Agenda

Iqbal Chand Malhotra

When Kashmir was a pawn in Britain’s quest to join the nuclear club

The Mahatma and Kashmir

MJ Akbar

On the eve of the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370, let us remember Gandhi’s Churchillian moment in the face of Pakistani aggression

The Subcontinent at Ease

Siddharth Singh

A history of a brief window of cooperation casts an interesting light on India’s relations with Pakistan

Stripping Mountbatten’s Halo

Kaveree Bamzai

Enough thorns in The Crown to nail India’s last Viceroy

One India, One Man

Rajshree Chandra

Rediscovering Patel as unifier and assimilator

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

London books shops, Abir Mukherjee’s crime fiction and a sense of history

Gurinder Chadha: ‘The future will be bilingual and bicultural’

Nikhil Taneja

Gurinder Chadha brings a British Punjabi perspective to history

Was Partition Inevitable?

Roderick Matthews

It was about human frailty: stubbornness, inexperience and ambition

Viceroy’s House: Ghost House of History

Roderick Matthews

What’s Wrong with Gurinder Chadha’s Middlebrow Partition Thriller?

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Lord Mountbatten

The Lost Dominion

Mountbatten’s Hidden Agenda

The Mahatma and Kashmir

The Subcontinent at Ease

Stripping Mountbatten’s Halo

One India, One Man

Open Diary

Gurinder Chadha: ‘The future will be bilingual and bicultural’

Was Partition Inevitable?

Viceroy’s House: Ghost House of History

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