About the Author

Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about India and the colonial experience elsewhere. He is a traveller, historian and master storyteller.

Reviews

Coromandel is lively and its stories well chosen - The EconomistAn engaging and meaningful account of a very long and complex history - Times Literary SupplementA writer whom India as well as Britain should be proud to call its own, this account is seductive and convincing - Literary Review