Zareer Masani

The remarkable adolescence of the Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.

A study of war through the ages.

Successful leaders or rapacious, racist, corrupt adventurers? A history of the East India Company.

Was the massacre of April 1919 a symptom of British oppression, or an exceptional event?

Cultural curiosity inspired generations of British imperialists to unearth India’s past.

The foundations of modern India were laid by the British governor-general, Warren Hastings. But he paid a heavy personal price.

An extensively researched, hard-hitting reassessment of British rule in India pulls no punches, but does not tell the whole story. 

In the 18th century, the Muslim warlord Tipu Sultan terrorised Hindu southern India and clashed repeatedly with the British. Today, his legacy is contested, but he was far from the nationalist that some have claimed, writes Zareer Masani.

Tata is one of the world’s wealthiest conglomerates, with an especially strong presence in Britain. Zareer Masani traces its origins among the Parsis of Bombay and charts its fortunes in an independent India.