Bharata Before the British and Other Essays: Towards a New Indology is an eclectic collection of essays, broad in scope and bold in ambition, by the historian Shonaleeka Kaul. The selection reflects the range of interests of, and variety of writings by, this versatile scholar. Taking the title of the first essay for the title of the book itself, the essays included in the volume take up various aspects of “ancient” and “medieval” India, and its (dis)continuities with the present.