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

Photos: A book on British rule in India, banned and held seditious, was still widely translated

Pragya Dhital

· Oct 07, 2017 · 11:30 pm

Essays by ‘Bevan Boys’: How Britain convinced Indians to join engineering training during WWII

John O'Brien

· Sep 23, 2017 · 09:30 pm

How a Hindu munshi’s Persian work came to influence English scholarship on Indian religions

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Sep 04, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Photos: Chinese and Islamic influences come together in the Qurans printed in China

Colin F Baker Ursula Sims-Williams

· Aug 18, 2017 · 09:30 pm

A guide to jianzi, a Chinese game with a shuttlecock (but no racket)

Ching Yuet Tang

· Jul 27, 2017 · 11:30 pm

‘Gratitude to my Creator’: A survivor’s account of the sinking of an East India Company ship in 1807

Helen Paul

· Jun 19, 2017 · 08:30 pm

From the library shelves: The curious tale of Prophet Solomon and the Phoenix

Saqib Baburi

· Jan 23, 2017 · 08:30 pm