Historical fiction is at its best when it entertains first and includes history almost as a byproduct. Forgotten Kingdoms of India: Shadow of the Serpent Fort does exactly that. Set in the turbulent ...

India's political map looks remarkably familiar today, but its history was anything but fixed. Long before modern states were created, the subcontinent was divided between hundreds of kingdoms, tribal ...

Every schoolchild in India can recite the defeats - Plassey, Buxar, the slow surrender of a subcontinent to European trading companies. Almost none can name the day an Indian kingdom beat one of those ...