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British Library

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

John O’Brien
· Dec 05, 2022 · 09:30 pm
Getting an Indian passport has always involved red tape, as files from the archives show

John O’Brien
· Oct 02, 2022 · 07:30 pm
Historical photos of the Kaʿba and the Hajj season

The British Library
· Jul 10, 2022 · 01:30 pm
How Satyajit Ray achieved historical accuracy in his first Hindi film ‘Shatranj ke Khilari’

Sarbajit Mitra
· Jun 13, 2022 · 02:45 pm
Images: Where were these miniatures of Sikh rulers painted?

JP Losty
· Apr 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
How harpists (including one from Benaras) were portrayed in the tales of the Buddha’s former lives

Maria Kekki
· Mar 23, 2021 · 09:30 pm
A look back at banned Indian political pamphlets – and why Orwell may not have approved of them

Pragya Dhital
· Dec 20, 2020 · 07:30 pm
My search for ‘Black Peggy’, a Bengal native who was seduced with a false promise of marriage

Margaret Makepeace
· Aug 16, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Mayalee: The story of an Indian dancing girl who stood up to the British Raj

Katherine Butler Schofield
· Mar 31, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Rudolf von Leyden: The German-born cartoonist who became Bombay’s top art critic in the 1930s

Mollie Arbuthnot
· Dec 16, 2018 · 01:30 pm
When an Englishwoman visited Mughal courts and transcribed their music in Western-style notation

Katherine Butler Schofield
· Jul 02, 2018 · 01:30 pm
These new digitised manuscripts throw new light on one of the greatest port cities in Southeast Asia

Annabel Teh Gallop
· Jun 17, 2018 · 11:30 pm
Photos: The medieval-era Qurans with 30 leaves, one for each day of the month

Ursula Sims-Williams
· Jun 15, 2018 · 09:30 pm
Portrait of a hero: New 3D modelling technique brings to life a celebrated British Indian trooper

Malini Roy
· Apr 29, 2018 · 08:30 pm
Photos: Treatises on Hindustani music from Akbar’s reign that shaped music theory for centuries

Katherine Butler Schofield
· Mar 31, 2018 · 08:30 pm
The quest to preserve the ‘Lotus Sutra’, Buddha’s final teaching on salvation

Mélodie Doumy
· Mar 10, 2018 · 09:30 pm
Photos: The workout regimen designed by the British for Indian engineers in early 20th century

Margaret Makepeace
· Jan 30, 2018 · 07:30 pm
Photos: Old Chinese gazettes offer a glimpse of life during the Qing Dynasty

Emily Mokros
· Dec 20, 2017 · 10:30 pm
An ancient Anglo-Saxon book of plants has a cure for the common cold, but you may not like it

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri
· Oct 13, 2017 · 03:30 pm