Colonialism
-
Why England should stop whitewashing its colonial past in its school history curriculum
Deana Heath, The Conversation
-
If India was the jewel in the British crown, why were so few Britons actually here?
David Gilmour
-
The dispute between Britain and Mauritius over Chagos islands traces the long shadow of colonialism
Miriam Bak McKenna, The Conversation
-
Currying on: The South Asian diaspora has owned a racial slur and turned it into a potent metaphor
Mridula Nath Chakraborty, The Conversation
-
How to transport swords and scabbards from England to India, according to an 18th-century letter
Karen Stapley
-
Readers’ comments: ‘Blaming colonialism for the current state of affairs in India is easy’
Scroll
-
When an Indian lawyer was sent to Scandinavia to preach the virtues of colonial rule
Ole Birk Laursen
-
Embroidered into Meghan Markle’s veil was Britain’s bid to celebrate its bloody colonial history
Aparna Kapadia
-
‘Colonial opera’: Were Western cultural imports tools of imperialism?
Adam Mestyan, Aeon
-
‘Let no-one grudge...to pay tax’: Why did a Bengali boy sing praises of Income Tax in British India?
Lesley Shapland
-
How science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what we can do about it
Rohan Deb Roy, The Conversation
-
Video: Why did the British construct a 1,700-km plant hedge cutting across the breadth of India?
Ramakrishnan M
-
Video: The reason why the Taj Mahal and other Mughal monuments are filled with English-style gardens
Ramakrishnan M
-
Video: When the Qutub Minar was once crowned by a Hindu-style cupola designed by an Englishman
Ramakrishnan M
-
Empire of ethics: Studying UK’s colonial past through an ethical lens legitimises a slippery slope
Arjun Appadurai
-
Celebrating Bhima Koregaon is unpatriotic? So why not other British victories in India too?
Shoaib Daniyal
-
What the success of a journal article supporting colonialism says about academia in a clickbait era
Max Gallien Portia Roelofs
-
Third World Quarterly row: Why some western intellectuals are trying to debrutalise colonialism
Vijay Prashad
-
Video: How a 19th century Bengali mathematician first calculated the height of Mount Everest
Ramakrishnan M
-
‘India missed the bus for they threw us under its wheels’: Shashi Tharoor on British rule of India
Scroll Staff