Keay lives in both Edinburgh and in Argyll in the West Highlands of Scotland and travels widely. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. The Economist has called him "a gifted non-academic historian", the Yorkshire Post has called him "one of our most outstanding historians", The Independent has called his writing "exquisite" and The Guardian has described his historical analysis as "forensic" and his writing as "restrained yet powerful". In 2019, he received an honorary doctorate, presented by Princess Anne, from the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland. He has received several major honours including the Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal. The author of some twenty-five books, he also writes regularly for a number of prominent publications in Britain and Asia. He is known both for stylistic flair and meticulous research into archival primary sources, including centuries-old unpublished sources. In particular, he is widely seen as a pre-eminent historian of British India. John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europeans. Anna Keay, Humphrey Atkins, Simon Thurley
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