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