William Hunter: The Scottish historian who chronicled the horrors of Bengal and Orissa famines

Ayesha Mukherjee

· Sep 20, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Gyan Chaupar to Snakes and Ladders: How a game about a karmic journey became a plaything for kids

Souvik Mukherjee

· Sep 15, 2020 · 09:30 pm

How the translation of a Bengali play led to a British priest being convicted for libel in 1861

Lesley Shapland

· Sep 06, 2020 · 07:30 pm

Spanish flu response by Indian officers in British Raj has lessons for the country’s Covid-19 fight

Manavi Kapur, qz.com

· Sep 06, 2020 · 01:30 pm

This work of micro-history illustrates how laissez faire economics killed millions in British India

Shoaib Daniyal

· Feb 09, 2020 · 07:30 am

The heartless way in which the British dealt with the widows of Indian soldiers

Hedley Sutton

· Nov 17, 2019 · 01:30 pm

400 years ago, England’s first ambassador to India returned home with ‘eye-opening experiences’

Lubaaba Al-Azami

· Oct 21, 2019 · 09:30 pm

How crystal chandeliers gifted to the Shah of Persia travelled from England to Bombay to Tehran

Lesley Shapland

· Oct 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

William Dalrymple’s book masterfully chronicles an early instance of corporate power over governance

M Saad

· Sep 28, 2019 · 06:30 am

A chef unearths troubling family secrets in a post-colonial romance harking back to the British Raj

Shashi Warrier

· Jul 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

The death penalty law exploited by the British for oppression is still being used in Pakistan

Justice Project Pakistan, Dawn.com

· Jul 14, 2019 · 01:30 pm

Anita Anand’s ‘The Patient Assassin’ remembers the man who avenged the Jallianwala massacre

Francis P Sempa

· Jul 03, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Part history, part detective story, a book traces the mystery of a missing East India Company clerk

Soni Wadhwa

· May 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

Tawaifs: The unsung heroes of India’s freedom struggle

Soumya Rao

· May 14, 2019 · 11:30 am

The British tried growing Syrian tobacco in Bombay Presidency – but the plan went up in smoke

Karen Stapley

· Mar 03, 2019 · 08:30 pm

The Daily Fix: Supreme Court’s order on evicting forest dwellers could hollow out Forest Rights Act

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Feb 22, 2019 · 09:30 am

The exoticised images of India by Western photographers have left a dark legacy

Mahima Jain

· Feb 20, 2019 · 03:30 pm

After the massacre: What happened at Jallianwala Bagh then (and what has happened to it now)

Kim A Wagner

· Feb 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Robert Clive reimagined: How to use the techniques of novel-writing for historical figures

Alex Rutherford

· Dec 22, 2018 · 10:30 am

Shells, songs and bombs: How Indians experienced World War I on the home front

George Morton-Jack

· Nov 17, 2018 · 12:30 pm