Writing history
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An innovative new biography of Emperor Ashoka reads his life from his edicts alone
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Hard work, sacrifice, gender: What the visceral afterlife of the Partition in India reveals
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What does Eric Ambler’s novel ‘The Mask of Dimitrios’ have to do with the Greco-Turkish War?
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‘The book that changed me’: A historian’s take on Priya Satia’s ‘Time’s Monster’
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Historical fiction has more readers than ever but for its authors, the genre can be a minefield
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The real Jinnah: Nationalists on both sides of the border have distorted Pakistan's founder