T.C.A. Raghavan

T.C.A. Raghavan has a PhD in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been High Commissioner of India to Singapore and to Pakistan. He retired from the Indian Foreign Service in 2015. His first book, Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim, Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Memorial Prize for the best book on medieval Indian history by the Indian History Congress in 2017. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan (2017). He is currently Director-General of the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi.

Praise for books by T.C.A Raghavan

T.C.A. Raghavan’s The People Next Door is written with deep personal knowledge and a genuine investment in the India-Pakistan relationship. – The Wire

‘History Men’ review: Unearthing facts of history without bias or discrimination – The Hindu

How India’s Men of History Made History Themselves – The Wire