Srinath Raghavan

Srinath Raghavan is an Indian historian of contemporary history. He is a professor of history and international relations at Ashoka University, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a visiting senior research fellow at the India Institute of King’s College London. He was previously a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, specialising in contemporary and historical aspects of India’s foreign and security policies.

Books in order of publication:

War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years – 2010

1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh – 2013

India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939–1945 – 2016

The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia – 2018

Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India – 2025