Richard Bourke is Professor in the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London. He has previously written on enlightenment political ideas and violence in modern Ireland. His Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke ($45; 1,032 pages) will be published by Princeton University Press on 30 September 2015
Edmund Burke, the 18th century English philosopher-statesman, believed that Indians were systematically exploited by the East India Company, whose abuse of power led to the creation of one of the most degenerate species of government that the civilised world had ever seen
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm