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1. Romila Thapar

   Author of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300, A History of India: Volume 1 (Penguin History), Asoka and the Decline of the Mauryas
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2. Ramachandra Guha

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3. William Dalrymple

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4. Jawaharlal Nehru

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5. Shashi Tharoor

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6. John Keay

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7. Larry Collins

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8. Amartya Sen

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9. Mahatma Gandhi

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10. A. L. Basham

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11. Rahul Pandita

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12. Jean Dreze

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13. Alex von Tunzelmann

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14. Madhusree Mukerjee

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15. S.A.A. Rizvi

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16. Khushwant Singh

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17. Sunil Khilnani

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18. Tariq Ali

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19. Stanley A. Wolpert

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20. K.A.Nilakanta Shastri

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21. Edward Luce

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22. Gurcharan Das

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23. Sugata Bose

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24. V. S. Naipaul

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25. Percival Spear

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26. R. S. Sharma

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27. Roy Moxham

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28. Yasmin Khan

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29. Lawrence James

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30. Wendy Doniger

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31. Charles Allen

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32. Katherine Boo

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33. B. R. Ambedkar

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34. Katherine Frank

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35. Sumit Sarkar

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36. Sanjeev Sanyal

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37. Nirad C. Chaudhuri

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38. Peter Hopkirk

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39. Maria Misra

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40. Irfan Habib

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41. M.J. Akbar

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42. Perry Anderson

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43. Patrick French

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44. Louis Fischer

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45. Christopher Hibbert

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46. Rajmohan Gandhi

    Author of Revenge & Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History, Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People and An Empire
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47. Arundhati Roy

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48. Suketu Mehta

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49. Richard Holmes

    Author of Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914
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50. Pankaj Mishra

    Author of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia, Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
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