Historical Fiction
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Fiction: Shah Jahan’s daughter Jahanara lives like a recluse with Panipat, a eunuch, for company
Sukumaran Kalaivani Karunakaran
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Hindi historical fiction: An excerpt from ‘Khanzaada’ by Bhagwandass Morwal
Bhagwandass Morwal
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Fiction: In 1556, an old man documents his family’s story beginning a hundred years earlier
Madhulika Liddle
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In Rana Safvi’s debut novel, a young princess’s quest for love is made difficult by the 1857 mutiny
Rana Safvi
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Fiction: Abbas must retrieve a wooden tiger he made for Tipu Sultan, which the British plundered
Tania James
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‘One Another’ explores the life of Joseph Conrad and the transformative potential of reading
Sue Kossew, The Conversation
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Based on a true story: A 1930s murder in Calcutta that sent shockwaves across the British empire
Dan Morrison
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Fiction: 1896. Mark Twain is in Bombay. But he has vanished from his hotel room in the dead of night
Anuradha Kumar
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Fiction: A teacher resists orders to teach false history to students in turbulent 1980s’ Pakistan
Tahira Naqvi
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‘Mansur’: A novel about beauty that is as rich and tender as precious silk
Shubhangi Tiwari
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Fiction: Indenture as seen by a woman in a British-owned sugarcane plantation in 19th-century India
Joanne Joseph
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A new book of short stories is based on eyewitness accounts of women’s lives in royal harems
Apala G Egan
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‘I’d like to see historical fiction that talks less about kings and wars and more about people’
Abdullah Khan
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Historical fiction has more readers than ever but for its authors, the genre can be a minefield
Anuja Chandramouli
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‘Kama’s Last Sutra’: An archaeologist is sent back in time to 11th century Khajuraho in this novel
Trisha Das
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In this historical novel, a series of gruesome murders rocks emperor Ashoka’s palace
Ravi Shankar Etteth
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The Scroll.in review of Devi Yesodharan’s novel ‘Empire’: The author’s response
Devi Yesodharan
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This work of historical fiction about the Chola dynasty is more fiction than history
Ruchika Sharma
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Detail, detail, detail: British TV show ‘Poldark’ adviser on how she stripped down history
Hannah Greig, The Conversation