Zareer Masani

A new history of Jallianwala Bagh gives due emphasis on the suffocatingly hostile nationalist backcloth and the lack of pre-meditation on both sides

Casting aside anti-colonial truisms, Gilmour peeps into personal, official documents to present complex British motives and a strong devotion to duty

A brilliantly-researched book says that free trade under colonialism served India’s economic interests wonderfully. Nehruvian socialism did not.

Tipu’s horrific despotism is whitewashed in a biography of fulsome praise

A pictorial biography of Gandhi doesn’t ignore his blemishes

Rich cast and tapestry, momentous times make for a thrilling, but deeply flawed, book

The Tata sky is a limitless firmament, and its gods a generation of Parsi gentlemen like no other

Nehru cost India 50 years of growth. His legacy is a petty dynasty.

The official FSI limits have been widely disregarded by private builders in cahoots with corrupt offi­cers...

Parsis: myth, ethics, the arts and pride informs every fibre of their material pursuit. A SOAS exhibition says little.