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
March 2021 Issue John Keay Trial & Empire Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India By Roderick Matthews LR
September 2019 Issue John Keay On Firm Ground The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company By William Dalrymple LR
May 2019 Issue Lucy Moore Ladies of the Raj She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India By Katie Hickman
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
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
August 2018 Issue John Keay From Kensington to Kathmandu The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire By Deborah Baker LR
March 2017 Issue John Keay Bristling with Raj Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India By Shashi Tharoor LR
August 2016 Issue David Gilmour Colonial Conundrums India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire By Jon Wilson
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
June 2003 Issue Tim Heald Sticky Fingers Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India By Chandak Sengoopta 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
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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