Vikram Sampath, FRHistS, is a Bangalore-based historian who has authored six critically-acclaimed non-fiction books. His two-volume biography on Veer Savarkar has been the National Bestseller. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Eisenhower and Aspen Global Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow at NMML, Dr Sampath is the recipient of several awards such as the Sahitya Akademi’s first Yuva Puraskar for English literature and the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Research in Music.