Manu S. Pillai

Manu S. Pillai is a historian and the author of the award-winning The Ivory Throne (2015), Rebel Sultans (2018), The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin (2019), False Allies (2021), and most recently Gods, Guns & Missionaries (2024). Formerly Chief of Staff to Dr Shashi Tharoor MP, he has in the past worked with a peer at the House of Lords in Britain, and with the BBC on their 'Incarnations' Indian history radio series. Written over six years and researched in three continents, Manu’s first book, The Ivory Throne won the 2017 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar. He holds a PhD in history from King's College London.