"It is true that the early Nehruvian textbooks were written by Romila Thapar and so on, many of whom were Marxists. So…"

"At a time when the British showed no particular enthusiasm for cleanliness, Indian women for example introduced Briti…"

"The economic figures speak for themselves. In 1600, when the East India Company was founded, Britain was generating 1…"

"Robert Clive was a vicious asset-stripper. His statue has no place on Whitehall. Honouring the man once known as Lord…"

"I am basically writing for a general audience rather than an academic audience. So, I explain stuff, I don’t assume k…"

"I am writing definitely primarily for an audience who don’t know India."

"Actually, when you have been in the country for a long time... whether it’s an Indian kid going to live in California…"

"Everybody has their own India and I think it’s a nonsense construction, “a real India”. The real India might be the I…"

"What has gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan has many echoes with what was going in this part of the world in 18th and 19…"

"The outbreak revealed the surprising degree to which the Mughal court was still regarded across northern India not as…"