Fiction: Shah Jahan’s daughter Jahanara lives like a recluse with Panipat, a eunuch, for company

Sukumaran Kalaivani Karunakaran

· Oct 10, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Hindi historical fiction: An excerpt from ‘Khanzaada’ by Bhagwandass Morwal

Bhagwandass Morwal

· Aug 09, 2024 · 06:30 pm

Fiction: In 1556, an old man documents his family’s story beginning a hundred years earlier

Madhulika Liddle

· Jun 05, 2024 · 05:30 pm

In Rana Safvi’s debut novel, a young princess’s quest for love is made difficult by the 1857 mutiny

Rana Safvi

· May 22, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Abbas must retrieve a wooden tiger he made for Tipu Sultan, which the British plundered

Tania James

· Apr 12, 2024 · 06:30 pm

‘One Another’ explores the life of Joseph Conrad and the transformative potential of reading

Sue Kossew, The Conversation

· Mar 03, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Based on a true story: A 1930s murder in Calcutta that sent shockwaves across the British empire

Dan Morrison

· Jan 31, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: 1896. Mark Twain is in Bombay. But he has vanished from his hotel room in the dead of night

Anuradha Kumar

· Dec 26, 2023 · 05:32 pm

Fiction: A teacher resists orders to teach false history to students in turbulent 1980s’ Pakistan

Tahira Naqvi

· Dec 07, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Mansur’: A novel about beauty that is as rich and tender as precious silk

Shubhangi Tiwari

· Sep 30, 2023 · 08:30 am

Fiction: Indenture as seen by a woman in a British-owned sugarcane plantation in 19th-century India

Joanne Joseph

· May 09, 2023 · 05:30 pm

A new book of short stories is based on eyewitness accounts of women’s lives in royal harems

Apala G Egan

· May 04, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘I’d like to see historical fiction that talks less about kings and wars and more about people’

Abdullah Khan

· Oct 31, 2021 · 08:30 am

Historical fiction has more readers than ever but for its authors, the genre can be a minefield

Anuja Chandramouli

· May 05, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Kama’s Last Sutra’: An archaeologist is sent back in time to 11th century Khajuraho in this novel

Trisha Das

· Sep 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

In this historical novel, a series of gruesome murders rocks emperor Ashoka’s palace

Ravi Shankar Etteth

· Apr 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The Scroll.in review of Devi Yesodharan’s novel ‘Empire’: The author’s response

Devi Yesodharan

· Sep 28, 2017 · 07:30 pm

This work of historical fiction about the Chola dynasty is more fiction than history

Ruchika Sharma

· Sep 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

Detail, detail, detail: British TV show ‘Poldark’ adviser on how she stripped down history

Hannah Greig, The Conversation

· Sep 06, 2016 · 01:30 pm