Robert Clive's name comes with labels attached to it — a plunderer, trickster and "social" psychopath. In an age of fake news where anything can seem believable, which of these versions do we stand by? Historian Dr Zarir Masani insists that we study Clive — the first British governor of Bengal — in context. That's the idea he will convey today in a lecture titled Robert Clive: The Man Who Would Be King, at the KR Cama Oriental Insitute.

Edited excerpts from the interview.