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Colonial India

From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?

Ajay Gandhi
· Jan 22, 2023 · 11:30 am
Daggers drawn: How contracts in Western India were guaranteed in blood 300 years ago

Leah Verghese
· Jan 07, 2023 · 11:30 am
How the princely states, used by Britain to consolidate its empire, faded into obscurity

Sarath Pillai
· Nov 24, 2022 · 11:30 am
Podcast: From sea channels to gas-powered lights – 300 years of ambitious, unbuilt Mumbai projects

Dinyar Patel
· Nov 23, 2022 · 11:30 am
How Lydia Muttulakshmi found freedom and her happily ever after, in 19th century Bangalore

Ramjee Chandran
· Nov 13, 2022 · 11:30 am
When a British widow petitioned the India Office for financial help in 1868

Margaret Makepeace
· Sep 06, 2022 · 09:30 pm
Amidst UK heatwave, a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers

Arun Kumar
· Jul 21, 2022 · 11:30 am
Why tinkering with the traditions of the armed forces is adventurism best avoided

Lt Col (Retd) JS Sodhi
· Jan 29, 2022 · 09:00 am
Roshani Begum: A dancer from Tipu Sultan’s court who rebelled against the British

Jennifer Howes
· Nov 14, 2021 · 01:30 pm
How historian Vikram Sampath uses decolonisation rhetoric to make Hindu domination sound reasonable

Akash Bhattacharya
· Nov 13, 2021 · 09:00 am
A Scottish graveyard in Kolkata reveals the untold stories of colonial women in India

Sayan Dey, The Conversation
· Jun 18, 2021 · 01:30 pm
A British Army officer’s wife’s account of a route march in colonial India

Margaret Makepeace
· Feb 25, 2021 · 09:30 pm
How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India

Mitra Sharafi
· Aug 10, 2020 · 11:30 am
In the lockdown, a reminder of the missing histories of women at work

Aparna Kapadia
· Apr 27, 2020 · 07:30 am
Hello from the other side: A map shows telephone connectivity in India in 1934

John O'Brien
· Mar 26, 2019 · 08:30 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
‘Their toil and sacrifices’: Why Mushirul Hasan (1949-2018) wrote about prisoners in colonial India

Mushirul Hasan
· Dec 11, 2018 · 08:30 am
When an East India Company official was gifted an elaborate candelabra from his ‘friends in Panjab’

Malini Roy
· Aug 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm
The 1915 Ghadar plan to free India from the British was a failure – but it sparked a revolution

Haroon Khalid
· Apr 27, 2018 · 05:30 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