Charles Allen (writer)

Biography

Works

Books

• 1975. Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century.
• 1977. RAJ: A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947.
• 1979. Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century.
• 1982. A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India.
• 1983. Tales from the South China Seas: Images of the British in South-East Asia in the Twentieth Century.
• 1984. Lives of the Indian Princes, with co-author Sharada Dwivedi.
• 1987. Kipling's Kingdom: His Best Indian Stories.
• 1986. A Glimpse of the Burning Plain: Leaves from the Journals of Charlotte Canning.
• 1988. A Soldier of the Company: Life of an Indian Ensign 1833-43.
• 1989. Architecture of the British Empire, Ed. R. Fermor-Hesketh.
• 1990. The Savage Wars of Peace: Soldiers' Voices 1945-1989.
• 1991. Thunder and Lightning: the RAF in the Gulf War.
• 1999. The Search for Shangri-La: a Journey into Tibetan History.
• 2000. India Through the Lens: Photography 1840-1911, Ed. Vidya Dehejia.
• 2000. Soldier Sahibs: the Men who Made the North-West Frontier..
• 2002. The Buddha and the Sahibs: the Men who Discovered India's Lost Religion.
• 2004. Duel in the Snows: the True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa.
• 2005. Maharajas: Resonance from the Past.
• 2006. God's Terrorists: the Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad.
• 2007. Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling..
• 2008. The Buddha and Dr Fuhrer: an Archaeological Scandal..
• 2011. The Taj at Apollo Bunder: the History of the Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai, with co-author Sharada Dwivedi.
• 2012. Ashoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor..
• 2015. The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43..
• 2017. Coromandel: a personal history of South India..
• 2017. Introduction to Rudyard Kipling, The Eyes of Asia.

  Film

• 2013. Bones of the Buddha.