History reproduces columns that analyse interesting or important events and controversies of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Memories of 1971
The Telegraph
The city outside India I know best is London, and the place in London I know best is the British Library, where, for thirty years and counting, I have scoured the capacious collections pertaining to the history of colonial India. I must have worked there for at least a thousand days all told, always following the [...]