Author Info
Siddhartha Sarma is a journalist and historian. He has reported on insurgency, crime, law and foreign affairs in New Delhi, Mumbai and Indias Northeast, for national newspapers and magazines including The Indian Express and Mint, and was till recently assistant editor, The Times of India. He is guest faculty for history at the University of Delhi, where he teaches late medieval European, colonial and world history. He has an M Litt in War Studies from the University of Glasgow, where he specialised in the later Crusades.
Siddhartha has written several books in the last ten years. His latest book, Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India (2019), is the first complete history of the arrival of Western Christianity in India. His first book for young adults, The Grasshoppers Run (2009) won the Crossword Book Award 2010 and Sahitya Akademi Award for Childrens Literature in English 2011.
Siddhartha Sarma is a journalist and historian. He has reported on insurgency, crime, law and foreign affairs in New Delhi, Mumbai and Indias Northeast, for national newspapers and magazines including The Indian Express and Mint, and was till recently assistant editor, The Times of India. He is guest faculty for history at the University of Delhi, where he teaches late medieval European, colonial and world history. He has an M Litt in War Studies from the University of Glasgow, where he specialised in the later Crusades.
Siddhartha has written several books in the last ten years. His latest book, Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India (2019), is the first complete history of the arrival of Western Christianity in India. His first book for young adults, The Grasshoppers Run (2009) won the Crossword Book Award 2010 and Sahitya Akademi Award for Childrens Literature in English 2011.