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Hedley Sutton
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The heartless way in which the British dealt with the widows of Indian soldiers
Pensions were allowed only to women in strained circumstances, and to those whose husbands had ‘performed really good service’.
Hedley Sutton
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Portugal gifted Bombay to Britain in 1661. So why did a Portuguese militia stay behind?
Loyal to the East India Company, the Bombay Portuguese Militia was first raised in 1672 and existed until 1827.
Hedley Sutton
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Fifty years after 1857, a British mother used the Uprising to try to get an Army job for her son
Louisa Sutherland hoped that recounting her family’s dreadful sufferings would melt the hearts of the India Office’s bureaucracy.
Hedley Sutton
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We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
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Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right
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When British authorities were asked to probe the German connections of its officers in India
The anti-German hysteria after the First World War had reached Indian shores as well.
Hedley Sutton
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How an East India Company civil servant worked as a sweeper to wrestle a pension
The official, Thomas Snodgrass, was initially denied the pension because of his bad record.
Hedley Sutton
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Shakespeare in India: How Indians saw and read the Bard a hundred years back
Francis Younghusband’s essay says 'Othello', 'The Merchant of Venice', and 'Romeo and Juliet' were the Bard's most-liked plays in the early 20th century.
Hedley Sutton & Karen Waddell
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes