Shrabani Basu

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Shrabani Basu’s book tells the story of how Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective knowhow once came to the rescue of a beleaguered Parsi lawyer

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A historian recalls how Arthur Conan Doyle helped a Parsi lawyer, George Edalji, clear his name after being convicted for the crime of animal mutilation

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Author Shrabani Basu tells Medha Dutta Yadav how Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s defence of George Edalji intrigued her enough to write a book on them

Racism played a defining role in the recruitment and treatment of the soldiers of colour being appointed from the colonies.

Shrabani Basu is back with another book, this time with a tale that documents the prejudice against an Indian family that converted to Christianity while they were living in Britain.

THE real-life relationship between the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and a wrongly convicted Indian solicitor has been explored in a new nonfiction book.

Set in 1903, this is the story of Arthur Conan Doyle investigating the case of a young Indian lawyer, George Edalji, who was falsely imprisoned for mutilating horses

The bestselling author of Victoria & Abdul delights with this sophisticated account of an Edwardian-era miscarriage of justice

EXCLUSIVE: We look at the curious case of Sherlock Holmes’ creator Arthur Conan Doyle and his only real life investigation involving the son of the first South Asian vicar of an English parish and a false accusation of hideous violence

The Parsee lawyer case 'Sherlock Holmes' solved  The Tribune

The statue will act as a memorial to the more than 1.2 million Indians who fought and 70,000 died during World War I for Britain.

It began with a handful of poison pen letters. Written on cheap lined paper torn from a notebook, and sent in 1888 to the vicar of Great Wyrley, a small mining town near Birmingham, they mixed

Queen Victoria, also known as the Empress of India, was born in 1819 and had a life quite unlike any Queen before her. She reigned for 63 years, had nine chil

A new book reveals how the Sherlock Holmes creator turned real-life detective – and how he was outfoxed by the police

SHRABANI BASU: The year was 1907, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was sitting at his desk when his secretary brought in a bulky package. Inside was a letter from a convicted criminal.

Freida Pinto will not only play the titular role in the series based on the book Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan, but will also executive produce it. The book is written by Shrabani Basu.

The story of British World War II spy Noor Inayat Khan is to be told in a new TV series and Freida Pinto has been cast as the lead.