Instead of indulging in the kind of communal narrative that is in vogue these days, [the author] takes pains to highlight India’s composite culture, which the British did much to destroy. The book is written from the point of view of a secular nationalist. He has taken great pains to collect a lot of evidence to expose some of the classic falsehoods in colonialist histories, including false accusations against Indian rules and “a few examples of misappropriation of our history”.