Scottish historian based in India who wrote In Xanadu, City of Djinns, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Return of a King, and The Anarchy — among the most acclaimed popular historians of South Asian history — known for his accessible narrative style and archival depth.
Made Mughal and Indian history accessible to a global English-language audience — The Anarchy's account of the East India Company's corporate conquest of India, and The Last Mughal's account of the 1857 Uprising, combine extraordinary archival research with narrative skill to make Indian history emotionally real to Western readers.
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