Shrabani Basu

Shrabani Basu is an Indian journalist and historian, and the author of several books including Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant (2010), which was based on the friendship between Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim. It was subsequently adapted into the film Victoria & Abdul (2017). Earlier she authored Spy Princess: The life of Noor Inayat Khan (2006), following which she founded the Noor Inayat Khan Memorial Trust and campaigned for a memorial to Khan, which resulted in the erection of a bust in Gordon Square, London. In 2020, she unveiled a Blue Plaque outside Khan's London home on Taviton Street.

After compiling the stories of Indian men sent to Europe in 1914, she published For King and Another Country (2015), a book describing some of India's contributions in the First World War. Later she wrote a book about how Arthur Conan Doyle proved the innocence of an Indian lawyer, George Edalji, in the Midlands; The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the case of the foreigner in the English village (2021).