Hazareesingh, Sudhir: - Sudhir Hazareesingh was born in Mauritius. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford. His books include The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General, How the French Think, and Black Spartacus (winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the American Library in Paris Book Award). In 2020, he became a Grand Commander of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean, the highest honor of the Republic of Mauritius.