Winner of the 2023 Tata Literature Live! First Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2023 Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize
?The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read? ? Ramachandra Guha, author of India After Gandhi: A History
?A real achievement, an instant classic and a total triumph? ? Shruti Kapila, Professor of History and Politics, University of Cambridge and author of Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
?Doubles as a history of Hindu supremacism; it won?t be bettered for a long time? ? Pankaj Mishra, author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present