Manu S Pillai

Praise for Gods, Guns and Missionaries

A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's mos ...

William Dalrymple

A deft exploration of four centuries of Hinduism's often terse, sometimes violent and always complex relationship with other faiths, Gods, Guns and Missionaries explodes the myth of a singular, 'true' ...

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Financial Times, The Best Books of the Week

Brilliantly deft and lucid ... [an] insightful and incisive inquiry [that] doesn’t always choose the more obvious examples [and] devotes more space to peninsular India than do most histories. Pillai ...

David Arnold, Times Literary Supplement

A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's mos ...

William Dalrymple

A deft exploration of four centuries of Hinduism's often terse, sometimes violent and always complex relationship with other faiths, Gods, Guns and Missionaries explodes the myth of a singular, 'true' ...

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Financial Times, The Best Books of the Week

Brilliantly deft and lucid ... [an] insightful and incisive inquiry [that] doesn’t always choose the more obvious examples [and] devotes more space to peninsular India than do most histories. Pillai ...

David Arnold, Times Literary Supplement

A brave and magnificent book, and a vital intervention: as elegant as it is witty, as erudite as it is wise, and as stylish as it is scholarly. Manu Pillai is fast becoming one of India's mos ...

William Dalrymple

A deft exploration of four centuries of Hinduism's often terse, sometimes violent and always complex relationship with other faiths, Gods, Guns and Missionaries explodes the myth of a singular, 'true' ...

Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan, Financial Times, The Best Books of the Week

Brilliantly deft and lucid ... [an] insightful and incisive inquiry [that] doesn’t always choose the more obvious examples [and] devotes more space to peninsular India than do most histories. Pillai ...

David Arnold, Times Literary Supplement