COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed h
The Prisoner of Kathmandu is the first biography of Brian Hodgson, Britain’s “father of Himalayan studies.” Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the Bengal Civil Service as a privileged but sickly young man.
"[Allen] pieces the story together like shards of a broken vase."?Sara Wheeler, The Sunday TelegraphIn this fascinating book, Charles Allen unravels the saga of an archeological discovery and a twiste
What are the roots of today’s militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of
