Manu S. Pillai (mrpat27/waatcoconut/instagram)

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Manu S. Pillai is an Indian historian and writer

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He was born in Mavelikkara, Kerala in 1990. He grew up in Pune.

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He has a PhD in history from King's College London and is an alumnus of Fergusson College, Pune.

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Following his education, he worked with the Parliamentary office of Shashi Tharoor in New Delhi and Lord Karan Bilimoria in London.

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His debut book, The Ivory Throne, is about the reign of Rani Sethu Lakshmi Bhay as the Regent of Travancore.

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In 2017, he won the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for this book.

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Rebel Sultans (2018), The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin (2019), and False Allies (2021) are his other books.

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Pillai's writings have been published in The Hindu, The Times of India, The New Statesman, Open Magazine, and Hindustan Times.

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