‘The East Indian’ by Brinda Charry wins Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction

Scroll Staff

· Apr 23, 2025 · 10:33 am

Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities

Shandana Minhas

· Mar 05, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Translated fiction: In 1741, King Marthandavarma thwarts the colonial ambitions of the Dutch

CV Raman Pillai GS Iyer

· Jan 10, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Historical fiction: King Mahameghavahana Kharavela fights to restore Kalinga to its former glory

Brijesh Singh

· Dec 03, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: Two women are in love with the same man – Madhavi, a dancing girl, and Kannagi, his wife

Anuja Chandramouli

· Dec 02, 2024 · 05:30 pm

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