British India
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A new book examines the jurisprudence of plunder and British imperial expansion in India
Rahul Govind
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Why have most former colonies never officially sought reparations?
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, The Conversation
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What the politics of Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman and Priti Patel say about diaspora identity
Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, The Conversation
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A Briton clicked these rare images of Kathmandu at a time when Nepal didn’t let in most foreigners
Susan Haris
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Delhi Durbars, ‘Kaiser-e-Hind’: How the British appropriated Mughal symbols to cement their rule
Rana Safvi
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Give dogs a cup of tea every day: Travel advice from a ‘celebrated’ 19th-century writer
Margaret Makepeace
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‘Jallianwala Bagh will be immortal in the world’: Publications the British deemed seditious
John O'Brien
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‘Burn your drawings of the Taj as no pencil can ever represent anything half so beautiful’
Nicole Ioffredi
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At the Tower of London’s exhibit of Crown Jewels, lesser known history sits alongside Koh-i-noor
Arun Kumar, The Conversation
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Podcast: Pre-Partition stories, filmi music made Radio Ceylon a household name in India and Pakistan
Dinyar Patel
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The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer
Roshan Abbas
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Revolting cruelties: How panorama exhibitions about 1857 built support for colonial rule in Britain
Sonal
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From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?
Ajay Gandhi
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Cries for help: Letters to the British India Office in the 19th century
John O’Brien
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How the princely states, used by Britain to consolidate its empire, faded into obscurity
Sarath Pillai
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The art of conquest: Images of India on the verge of British rule, as seen by two travellers
David Arnold
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Was the British empire a benign, progressive force? My family story proves otherwise
Dipankar Das
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The story of Henry Coxwell, who invented the ‘concrete lemon’ crystals supplied to British sailors
Margaret Makepeace
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When a British widow petitioned the India Office for financial help in 1868
Margaret Makepeace
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Amidst UK heatwave, a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers
Arun Kumar