Colonialism
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Priya Satia: How modern empire broke the empire mould
Priya Satia
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‘In the name of love’: Israel’s ‘pinkwashing’ obscures and legitimises violence against Palestinians
Rayyan Dabbous, The Conversation
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How colonial ideas of ‘barbarism’ help justify the dispossession of ‘uncivilised’ Palestinians
Elizabeth Vibert, The Conversation
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Long voyages, life in faraway lands: The women of the East India Company
Mark Williams
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‘The Fraud’: Zadie Smith’s new novel is a dazzling depiction of Victorian colonial England
Leighan M Renaud, The Conversation
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How the East India Company made its first maps and conducted land surveys in India
Rosie Llewellyn Jones
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At the Tower of London’s exhibit of Crown Jewels, lesser known history sits alongside Koh-i-noor
Arun Kumar, The Conversation
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Celebrating a poor man’s child landing a high-paying job reflects the deep inequality of education
Arun Kumar
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A UCC that furthers a patriarchal agenda and religious majoritarianism must be opposed
Nandita Haksar
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Restitution and reflection: Belgium’s AfricaMuseum is slowly reckoning with its colonial history
Julien Bobineau, The Conversation
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‘Invite you, then mistreat you’: Visa, border regimes keep Global South out of international events
Lin Taylor, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Worlds apart: How a writer from Lahore felt when he rode the London underground in 1900
Amanda Lanzillo
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How did European merchant companies trading in Indian handmade textiles impact colonial history?
Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis
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A historian closely studies the violence and coercion that Britain used to colonise India
Amar Farooqui
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From ayurveda advocacy to ‘Kartavya Path’: The canny decolonial politics of Narendra Modi
Sanya Dhingra
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The lost tale of a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests
Ajay Gandhi
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Watch: Indigenous Australian news anchor demands apology from the British monarchy for colonialism
Scroll Staff
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‘Memsahibs’: How British women negotiated food and fear (and love and life) in colonial India
Ipshita Nath
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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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Not just the first Thanksgiving, US should also mark what happened in Virginia four months later
Peter C Mancall, The Conversation