Colonial India
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Photos of a Hyderabad princess throw light on women’s friendships in colonial South Asia
Pronita Tripathi
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How the colonial imagination of the ‘nautch girl’ was read back into Indian history
Omar Khan
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The exotic, the respectable, and the vulnerable: How the coloniser’s photographs saw Indian women
Hardik Brata Biswas
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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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The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer
Roshan Abbas
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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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Daggers drawn: How contracts in Western India were guaranteed in blood 300 years ago
Leah Verghese
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How the princely states, used by Britain to consolidate its empire, faded into obscurity
Sarath Pillai
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Podcast: From sea channels to gas-powered lights – 300 years of ambitious, unbuilt Mumbai projects
Dinyar Patel
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How Lydia Muttulakshmi found freedom and her happily ever after, in 19th century Bangalore
Ramjee Chandran
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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
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Why tinkering with the traditions of the armed forces is adventurism best avoided
Lt Col (Retd) JS Sodhi
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Roshani Begum: A dancer from Tipu Sultan’s court who rebelled against the British
Jennifer Howes
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How historian Vikram Sampath uses decolonisation rhetoric to make Hindu domination sound reasonable
Akash Bhattacharya
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A Scottish graveyard in Kolkata reveals the untold stories of colonial women in India
Sayan Dey, The Conversation
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A British Army officer’s wife’s account of a route march in colonial India
Margaret Makepeace
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How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India
Mitra Sharafi
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In the lockdown, a reminder of the missing histories of women at work
Aparna Kapadia