historical fiction
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Fiction: London-born Sukanya returns to her ancestral Meerut home, where belonging comes at a price
Parul Sharma
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Sunday book pick: ‘The Children of the New Forest’, the first historical novel for young readers
Sayari Debnath
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‘The East Indian’ by Brinda Charry wins Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
Scroll Staff
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Fiction: In 16th-century India, four people travel through a land teeming with possibilities
Shandana Minhas
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Translated fiction: In 1741, King Marthandavarma thwarts the colonial ambitions of the Dutch
CV Raman Pillai GS Iyer
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Historical fiction: King Mahameghavahana Kharavela fights to restore Kalinga to its former glory
Brijesh Singh
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Fiction: Two women are in love with the same man – Madhavi, a dancing girl, and Kannagi, his wife
Anuja Chandramouli
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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