A.R. Venkatachalapathy’s book, 'Swadeshi Steam', is a tragic and heroic story of Pillai’s valiant efforts to float and keep afloat an Indian shipping company in the early years of the 20th century. It is also the story of the Swadeshi movement in Madras.

Hilary Mantel’s ‘The Mirror and the Light’ brings her celebrated trilogy to a close.

D.W. Hayton’s book is the first full-scale biography of Namier, who was once considered the greatest historian in the English language.

Priya Satia shows persuasively in her book 'Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire' that the Empire's economic exploitation was buttressed by policies that sought to reform and civilise the colonised.

Rupali Mishra's 'A Business of State' nails the persistent misrepresentation that the empire of the trading company grew out of a fit of absent-mindedness – with the English state having nothing to do with it.

Rudrangshu Mukherjee pays tribute to Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, who passed away on January 7.

A new book tells the compelling story of the German physicist and communist who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and ensured, during the course of his work in Britain and the US, that the Americans would not have a monopoly over the nuclear bomb.

The short life of the mathematician and philosopher continues to have a profound impact.

The real strength of Manan Ahmed Asif's 'The Loss of Hindustan, the Invention of India' is his detailed reading and interpretation of Firishta’s 'Tarikh'.

Tim Harper's latest book, 'Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire', charts the lives of a group of Asian revolutionaries who set in motion anti-imperialist movements, including Sen Katayama, Ho Chi Minh and others.

In the 'Home in the World', the clarity of Sen’s thought and the lucidity of his prose are delightful and entertaining.

'Silverview' is also about the protagonist's perpetual flight — from his Nazi father, from his Polish communist past and finally from the British secret service that he had once so loyally served.

Jonathan Haslam’s book is a corrective and also makes a critique of how the history of international relations is practised.

Elkins is aware of the hypocrisy inherent in the liberal justification of the British Empire in India. However, 'Legacy of Violence' refuses to recognise that these arguments have been worked out by a number of Indian historians.

At one level, Suleika Dawson's book is a love story and a poignant one. At another, it is about David Cornwell the human being, and occasionally about his nom de plume John le Carré.

Nigel Biggar's 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning' contains no reckoning at all.

Ismail Kadare's 'A Dictator Calls' brings out the fraught and often dangerous relationship between poets/writers and tyrants.

Ladurie was part of the influential Annales school of historians but also grew beyond it.

In le Carré’s lifetime, Adam Sisman had published a massive biography of the writer. It now transpires from Sisman’s new book that at le Carré’s insistence, Sisman was forced to exclude large chunks of le Carré’s private life from the biography.