John McLeod is professor of History at the University of Louisville. Besides two previous editions of The History of India, he is the author of Sovereignty, Power Control: Politics in the States of Western India 1916-1947 (1999), Modern India (2020), and Bhownaggree: The Life and Times of an Indian Tory (2026). He is also the co-editor (with Kenneth X. Robbins) of African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat (2006).