July 2020 Issue Abhimanyu Arni From Bombay to the Green Benches Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism By Dinyar Patel LR
May 2020 Issue John McAleer Viewing India on Acid Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820 By Douglas Fordham LR
May 2019 Issue Lucy Moore Ladies of the Raj She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India By Katie Hickman
September 2018 Issue Jane Ridley Going Jungly The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience By David Gilmour LR
August 2018 Issue Bijan Omrani Great Game Changer Afghanistan in the Age of Empires By Farrukh Husain LR
June 2003 Issue Tim Heald Sticky Fingers Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India By Chandak Sengoopta LR
November 2007 Issue Piers Brendon Indian Inspiration Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen LR
September 2012 Issue Andrew Lycett Maiden Voyages The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj By Anne de Courcy LR
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