 The latter, published by Allen Lane to be timed with India's 60 years of independence, addresses the question of how India's traditions of caste and religious identities are able to coexist with a modern democratic state on its way to becoming a major economic power.She has presented a television documentary series on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India which was broadcast in 2001, has written for the "New Statesman", "The Guardian", "The Times" and "The Financial Times" and has contributed to the "Saturday Review" on Radio 4.She is a columnist for the "Times Higher Education Supplement".