December 2023 Issue Pratinav Anil Midnight’s Playboys Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States By John Zubrzycki
February 2022 Issue Bernard Porter They Came, They Saw, They Dissented Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom By Ramachandra Guha LR
August 2019 Issue John Keay From Lahore to Lancashire Partition Voices: Untold British Stories By Kavita Puri
April 2019 Issue John Keay In Cold Blood Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre By Kim A Wagner The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj By Anita Anand LR
August 2018 Issue John Keay From Kensington to Kathmandu The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire By Deborah Baker LR
June 2016 Issue Andrew Roberts Passages to India Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31 By Stuart Ball (ed) LR
August 2015 Issue John Keay Last Tango in Gangtok Sikkim: Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom By Andrew Duff
July 2015 Issue John Keay Reluctant Allies Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War By Raghu Karnad The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War By Yasmin Khan
March 2015 Issue David Motadel Berlin to Bombay Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire By Kris Manjapra LR
October 2008 Issue Piers Brendon The Fakir and the Bulldog Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age By Arthur Herman LR
October 2007 Issue Saul David Better Than The Romans The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 By Piers Brendon LR
September 2007 Issue V S Naipaul From ‘A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling’ By V S Naipaul LR
August 2007 Issue Sankarshan Thakur A Functioning Anarchy India After Gandhi By Ramachandra Guha Holy Warriors: A Journey into the Heart of Indian Fundamentalism By Edna Fernandes LR
August 2007 Issue David Gilmour Divided It Stands Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire By Alex von Tunzelmann The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan By Yasmin Khan LR
April 2005 Issue Frank Fairfield The Day the Raj Died The Butcher of Amritsar: General of Reginald Dyer By Nigel Collet LR
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