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Interview: Yashaswini Chandra on what the horse tells us about India s past The author of ‘The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback’ on the animal’s influence over mythology and the medieval economy. Detail of Battle of Haldighati , painted in 1822, showing Rana Pratap on his horse Chetak | Wikimedia Commons Yashaswini Chandra has a PhD in the history of art from SOAS, where she was also a teaching fellow, and formerly worked with Sahapedia, an open online resource on the arts, cultures and histories of India. In her first book, The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback, Chandra reminds us of how central horses were to polities, economies and ruling classes, both ancient and medieval, before the mechanisation of the modern world changed everything. ....