Twentieth-century texts show the relationship between Muslim tailors, their trade and their faith

Amanda Lanzillo

· Mar 07, 2024 · 01:30 pm

How shorthand in Marathi made accurate writing possible in newspapers amid colonial surveillance

Prachi Deshpande

· May 05, 2023 · 11:30 am

Avoid ‘injudicious indulgence’: What a British handbook advised women headed to the tropics

Margaret Makepeace

· May 05, 2023 · 11:30 am

The ‘unruly women’ who cared for the sick and wounded soldiers in the Anglo-Dutch wars

Rachel Clamp

· Nov 29, 2022 · 07:30 pm

The lost tale of a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests

Ajay Gandhi

· Sep 25, 2022 · 11:30 am

Mutton chops and sherry: Luncheons at the India Office in London in 1867

Margaret Makepeace

· Jul 31, 2022 · 07:30 pm

19th-century letters between two sisters reveal early records of avian life in Madras

Anna Winterbottom

· Jun 26, 2022 · 01:30 pm

When the British asked the French to jail Madame Cama, the ‘mother of Indian revolution’

John O’Brien

· Apr 09, 2022 · 09:30 pm

In the 1830s, children from orphan asylums in Madras were sent to New South Wales

Margaret Makepeace

· Mar 20, 2022 · 01:30 pm

In images: The anger in India against the Raj-appointed Simon Commission

John O’Brien

· Jan 15, 2022 · 07:30 pm

In 1830s Persia, ill-considered favours by a British official put his successor in a tight spot

Curstaidh Reid

· Jan 08, 2022 · 09:30 pm

In the 1760s, a sailor from Bengal was sentenced to death after a string of robberies in England

Karen Stapley

· Dec 29, 2021 · 07:30 pm

In searching for my ancestor Miguel of Mazagon, I found his role in a key Anglo-Portuguese deal

Megan deSouza Denis Rodrigues

· Nov 28, 2021 · 01:30 pm

What a 17th-century Dutch painting of an Indian boy tells us about migration today

Ajay Gandhi

· Sep 19, 2021 · 11:30 am

This ambitious history of the British Empire touches on everything from the Mahabharata to Marx

Kim A Wagner

· Feb 13, 2021 · 05:30 pm

1918 Bombay Fever: How voluntary groups sprang up in the face of state ‘neglect’

Mridula Ramanna

· Jul 05, 2020 · 11:30 am

A tale of two cities: What made Calcutta’s sex workers escape to a French colony in 19th century

Devarsi Ghosh

· Oct 02, 2019 · 11:30 am

How science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what we can do about it

Rohan Deb Roy, The Conversation

· Apr 08, 2018 · 09:30 pm

What it was like being an Indian soldier fighting for the British in World War II

Diya Gupta, The Conversation

· Nov 12, 2017 · 09:30 pm