Pratinav Anil

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji is a gently revisionist account of an enduring, if ever-tottering, democracy.

For 600 years Muslims held sway over the Indian subcontinent. Then democracy and a desultory leadership did them in.

Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris uncovers the Hindu guru’s life of epiphanies and contradictions.

What were Indian nationalists thinking?

Questioning the powerful Tata dynasty’s claims for a ‘different kind of capitalism’.