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Zareer Masani
Amritsar: beginning of the end of Empire
The true casualty figures are still hotly disputed 100 years after the Punjab massacre, but its real legacy was the slow death of the Raj
Zareer Masani
Features
History
India
Chastising Churchill
'Seventy years after independence, bashing Winston Churchill has become a sure-fire way of attracting a mass following on Indian social media'
Zareer Masani
Counterpoints
Last Days Of India’s Empress
A biography of Indira Gandhi's final years offers insights into a dark period of unmitigated corruption in Indian politics
Zareer Masani
Books
Hinduism
India
Politics
Crocodile Tears For India
A story of unmitigated British plunder in India, but one which subscribes to conventional views
Zareer Masani
Books
Jovial Pragmatists
SOAS’s new exhibition on Zoroastrianism fails to capture the rich cultural and historical legacy of this much-misunderstood and embattled faith
Zareer Masani
Counterpoints
India
The Making of the Mahatma
Dubious racial attitudes, an obsession with excrement and sexual eccentricities: Gandhi Before India reveals the unsavoury sides of the statesman’s character
Zareer Masani
Books
History
India
The Alternative History of an Undivided India
The perils of Partition would have been averted by Viceroy Wavell’s bold 1946 plan to create a subcontinental federation
Zareer Masani
Features
History
Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley
Underrated
The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart
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A tripod in the sky
The view from above
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