DR. MAHESH KAUL Aabhas Maldahiyar’s “Babur: The Quest for Hindustan” represents a significant contribution to the historiography of early Mughal India, offering readers a meticulously researched examination of one of history’s most consequential conquerors. Through eight distinct parts, Maldahiyar reconstructs the life, ambitions, and legacy of Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, challenging conventional narratives and presenting a…

DR. MAHESH KAUL When a country rewrites its own birth certificate — burning the photographs of its liberation heroes, erasing their faces from currency notes, and saluting the flag of the nation that once tried to destroy it — something more than a political transition has taken place. Inshallah Bangladesh: The Story of an Unfinished Revolution is…

Dr. Ramesh Taimiri Abhinav Pandya’s The Jihad Game: Inside Pakistan’s Dark War, published recently, is a book long overdue. It stands as perhaps the finest work on the terrorist challenge in Kashmir since 1990. Earlier books on the theme—such as Manoj Joshi’s The Lost Rebellion (late 1990s), Sati Sahni’s jour nalistic Kashmir Underground, and Praveen Swami’s…