‘Burn your drawings of the Taj as no pencil can ever represent anything half so beautiful’

Nicole Ioffredi

· Aug 25, 2023 · 07:30 pm

At the Tower of London’s exhibit of Crown Jewels, lesser known history sits alongside Koh-i-noor

Arun Kumar, The Conversation

· Aug 02, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Podcast: Pre-Partition stories, filmi music made Radio Ceylon a household name in India and Pakistan

Dinyar Patel

· Jul 18, 2023 · 01:30 pm

The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer

Roshan Abbas

· Apr 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

Revolting cruelties: How panorama exhibitions about 1857 built support for colonial rule in Britain

Sonal

· Apr 16, 2023 · 11:30 am

From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?

Ajay Gandhi

· Jan 22, 2023 · 11:30 am

Cries for help: Letters to the British India Office in the 19th century

John O’Brien

· Dec 05, 2022 · 09:30 pm

How the princely states, used by Britain to consolidate its empire, faded into obscurity

Sarath Pillai

· Nov 24, 2022 · 11:30 am

The art of conquest: Images of India on the verge of British rule, as seen by two travellers

David Arnold

· Oct 21, 2022 · 11:30 am

Was the British empire a benign, progressive force? My family story proves otherwise

Dipankar Das

· Oct 09, 2022 · 11:30 am

The story of Henry Coxwell, who invented the ‘concrete lemon’ crystals supplied to British sailors

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 13, 2022 · 07:30 pm

When a British widow petitioned the India Office for financial help in 1868

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 06, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Amidst UK heatwave, a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers

Arun Kumar

· Jul 21, 2022 · 11:30 am

The story of an Indian ayah who fought her British employers in court in 1826 – and won

Margaret Makepeace

· Jul 17, 2022 · 07:30 pm

In images: The anger in India against the Raj-appointed Simon Commission

John O’Brien

· Jan 15, 2022 · 07:30 pm

In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal

Megan deSouza Denis Rodrigues

· Nov 28, 2021 · 01:30 pm

An unusual annotation in Bengal records from 1777 recalls the famous life of Catherine Grand

Lesley Shapland

· Aug 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm

By demonising Hindus, Pakistan’s nationalist history overlooks colonial atrocities

Haroon Khalid

· Jul 04, 2020 · 07:30 am

Tracing the origins of a manuscript that became the cornerstone of Islamic law in British India

Jonathan Lawrence

· Apr 27, 2020 · 08:30 pm

Nobel laureate Ronald Ross discovered how malaria spreads during his time in the British Indian Army

David Moran

· Jan 21, 2020 · 08:30 pm