Mihir Bose

Not Just a Game Anymore

Mihir Bose asks why sport has become so central to modern culture.

Published April 19 2012

Everyone's Man in Kabul

Mihir Bose tells the little-known story of the Indian secret agent codenamed ‘Silver’ who served both the Axis and the Allied forces during the Second World War.

Published June 9 2010

Racism: The Two Faces of Empire

The Allies may be regarded as the ‘good guys’ of the Second World War, but the hypocrisy apparent in their treatment of colonial peoples drove many subjects into the arms of their enemies, as Mihir Bose explains.

Published September 16 2009

American Prometheus

Published March 13 2008

Vishnu’s Crowded Temple

BBC Sports Editor Mihir Bose explores a work on modern India.

Published January 16 2008

India’s Missing Historians

Mihir Bose discusses the paradox that India, a land of history, has a surprisingly weak tradition of historiography.

Published August 14 2007

The Butcher of Amritsar

Mihir Bose samples a work on an infamous massacre in the Raj in 1919.

Published September 21 2005

The Making of a 'Terrorist'

Mihir Bose investigates the case of Subhas Chandra Bose in Bengal in 1924 to show what can happen when a government is able to lock people up on the suspicion of terrorism.

Published April 20 2005

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.