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Historical fiction

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