Publications
Born in India Made in England is Khanna's twelfth book and tells his life story 'Warts and all'. In 1984 his novel Nation of Fools won the Winifred Holtby Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Literature for his first novel.
Born in India Made in England, Autobiography of a painter, with over 40 illustrations, many in colour has been described as 'a breath of fresh air during the current era of anti-imperialiste views', and captures the scenes, sights, and even smells of the India of Khanna's youth: cricket, food and girls; there are lots of girls. In the second part of his story Balraj describes the England he experienced while steadily gaining a reputation for innovation, lively, abstract designs 'full of atmosphere and intriguing dream like shapes' inspired by his personal journey, his childhood, nature and concepts of creation.
FICTION
2021
Born in India Made in England
Unicorn Press
2019
Line of Blood
Palimpsest
2014
Indian Magic
Hope Road Publishing, E-book & Printed edition
2013
Nation of Fools - EBook
2012
The Mist of Simla
Hope Road Publishing - E-book
2010
Rajah King of the Jungle
Harper Collins and Mappin, Hardback
2009
Rajah King of the Jungle, a children’s story book
Harper Collins & Mapin
1991
Sweet Chillies
Constable and Penguin India
1984
Nation of Fools
Michael Joseph and Penguin
ART
2000
Human and Divine, 2000 Years of Indian Sculpture
Hayward Gallery Publications
1998
Art of Modern India
Thames and Hudson
1997
Krishna, the Divine Lover
Hayward Gallery publications
1993
KALIGHAT PAINTINGS 1800-1930
Redstone Press (UK) and Shambala Press (US)
1987
ART ON THE SOUTH BANK
Co-authors – Richard Cork and Shirley Read
(an independent report commissioned by the GLC)
Published shorts stories and other essays
2006
« ChatterBox » by Balraj Khanna, pages 17-36
The Alpine Fantasy of Victor B and other Stories
A unique collection of fiction by contemporary British Artists, Published by Serpent’s Tale,
Edited by Jeremy Akerman and Eileen Daly
2000
« Indian Partition - A distant yesterday »
by Balraj Khanna, pages 42 - 53
Independent Practices
Representation, Locations and History in Contemporary Visual Art
Published by Bluecoat Arts Centre, Centre for art International Research (cair) at Liverpool School of Art & Design Liverpool John Moores University and Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing, 2000. Distributed in the UK by Cornerhouse Publications
1991
« The last card game »
by Balraj Khanna, pages 137-158
WIinter’s Tales, New series seven
Published by Constable,
Edited by Robin Baird-Smith
1989
« England: my brave new world »
by Balraj Khanna, pages108-110
The other story - Afro-Asian artists in post-war Britain, Rasheed Araeen
Catalogue published by The South Bank and the authors
There are generally two ways of looking at things -with your eyes the world gave you.
There is another way, the painter’s way. He can look at things that aren’t there with eyes that aren’t there.
Balraj Khanna, 1974