C P Bhambhri

Ms Desai has built her well-documented narrative in six chapters and marshalled evidence from the British-appointed Hunter Committee inquiry into the massacre

The author's description of the Portuguese challenge to Akbar, Jahangir and Shahjahan in Bengal is particularly informative

The message of this edited volume is that an individual who is not in tune with the mainstream ideas of his own society is liable to be punished, and Bhagat Singh was no exception

This is a pioneering work on Azad Kashmir, which Indians prefer to call Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), by a Pakistani journalist who made eight visits for her fieldwork over 2016 and 2017

Dr Habib dates the start of the independence struggle from the 1857 uprising, highlighting its socio-economic origins

This is an anthology of the writings of political leaders, poets, philosophers and men of letters

The author has made a heroic effort to refute the colonial description of India

A volume on religion and modernity published in 2016 does not have a chapter on the Sangh Parivar

The Emergency, imposed by prime minister Indira Gandhi between June 25, 1975 and January 18, 1977, remains one of the darkest periods of Indian politics

The book raises the broad question: If India is a Hindu Rashtra, in which religion and politics overlap, then what is Hinduism?