Manu S Pillai
Author · 6 books
Manu S. Pillai was born in Kerala in 1990 and educated at Fergusson College, Pune, and at King's College London. Following the completion of his master's degree, where he presented his thesis on the emergence of religious nationalism in nineteenth-century India, in 2011-12, he managed the parliamentary office of Dr Shashi Tharoor in New Delhi and was then aide to Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, a crossbencher at the House of Lords in London in 2012-13. That same year he was commissioned by the BBC as a researcher to work with Prof. Sunil Khilnani on the 'Incarnations' history series, which tells the story of India through fifty great lives. The Ivory Throne is Manu's first book.
Books
Rebel Sultans
The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
2018
The Ivory Throne
Chronicles of the House of Travancore
2016
Gods, Guns and Missionaries
The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity
2024
False Allies
India's Maharajahs in The Age of Ravi Varma
2021
The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin
Tales from Indian History
2018
The Book of Indian Kings (Aleph Olio)
Stories and Essays
2019
