India

On 17 January 1872, 49 Namdhari Sikhs – dubbed ‘Kukas’ by the British – were executed by cannon, supposedly for spreading insurrection.

Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. As India has changed, so has his place in its history.

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

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das details the uncertainty, contingency and precarity of England’s imperial ambitions.

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

What were Indian nationalists thinking?

Two Hindu gods discover an abandoned child while following the wind’s path.

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

How events in British India were leveraged in the debate over slavery.

Ambitious Sikh queen Jind Kaur faced division among the Sikh Empire’s subjects and the might of the British in India.