William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuściński award-winning Return of a King.
Ramachandra Guha is a historian and biographer who is currently Distinguished University Professor at Krea University. His books include a pioneering environmental history – The Unquiet Woods, an award-winning social history of cricket – A Corner of a Foreign Field, and a widely acclaimed history of his country – India after Gandhi