Colonial India
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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
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Hello from the other side: A map shows telephone connectivity in India in 1934
John O'Brien
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Rudolf von Leyden: The German-born cartoonist who became Bombay’s top art critic in the 1930s
Mollie Arbuthnot
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‘Their toil and sacrifices’: Why Mushirul Hasan (1949-2018) wrote about prisoners in colonial India
Mushirul Hasan
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When an East India Company official was gifted an elaborate candelabra from his ‘friends in Panjab’
Malini Roy
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The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure – but it sparked a revolution
Haroon Khalid
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Photos: A book on British rule in India, banned and held seditious, was still widely translated
Pragya Dhital
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In images: How photography evolved in India, from 1857 to the 21st century
Maria Thomas, qz.com
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A 53-foot scroll tells the story of the 1857 mutiny (from the British perspective)
Swati Chattopadhyay