Pratinav Anil

Pratinav Anil is the author of two bleak assessments of postcolonial Indian history, India’s First Dictatorship (co-authored with Christophe Jaffrelot) and Another India, forthcoming from Hurst. His writings have appeared in the Guardian, Spectator and Caravan.

Pandemics have always revealed the weakness of the Indian state

In 'Pandemic India', David Arnold offers a reflective study of Covid, cholera, plague, the Spanish flu and other historical mass contagions, from the time of the British Raj to the Modi government

Feb 03, 2023

The myth of Congress socialism

Why Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.

Mar 30, 2021

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