On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel, I stopped ...

The Trial That Shook Britain by Ashis Ray establishes with documentary evidence that a trial of three former officers of the ...

with books and news travelling thickly and surprisingly speedily between metropole and colony. The revolution in France, when known at Calcutta, in December last, produced an extraordinary ...