‘Ulcerous wounds, skin and bones’: How Chittaprosad’s searing sketches chronicled the Bengal famine

Avishek Ray

· Yesterday · 11:30 am

From patchwork of princely states to ‘heart’ of India: How modern-day Madhya Pradesh came to be

Kriti Bhargava Mehr Kalra Shivakumar Jolad

· Nov 01, 2024 · 07:30 am

Why Nagas want overseas museums to repatriate ancestral human remains in their collections

Rokibuz Zaman

· Oct 12, 2024 · 09:00 am

A postcard from India: How a colonial worldview travelled the Empire and beyond

Omar Khan

· Sep 15, 2024 · 11:30 am

The warrior women who fought – and won – against the East India Company

Theeba Krishnamoorthy

· Aug 26, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Writer, director or scamster and failed spy? The travails of the father of Iranian cinema in India

Gautam Pemmaraju

· Aug 25, 2024 · 11:30 am

How two English artists, a century apart, saw the Taj Mahal and what it says about colonial-era art

Giles Tillotson

· Aug 18, 2024 · 11:30 am

How an Englishman captured vibrant hues of a colonial Calcutta transforming into a commercial hub

Sonal

· Jun 23, 2024 · 11:30 am

Why the Indian Railways changed course – and how it can get back on track

Kalyan Sundareswaran G Sriram Iyer

· Jun 17, 2024 · 07:30 am

India to South Africa: How two activists defied their family legacies to challenge injustice

Nikhil Mandalaparthy

· May 19, 2024 · 11:30 am

Why a Pakistani lawyer wants a court to retry the case that led to Bhagat Singh’s execution

Chaman Lal

· Apr 06, 2024 · 03:30 pm

How colonial rule could mean spinsterhood for the women of the East India Company

Margaret Makepeace

· Apr 01, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Caste census: Surveyors today are likely to face the same problems British enumerators did

Ayan Guha

· Feb 05, 2024 · 07:30 am

A new book examines the jurisprudence of plunder and British imperial expansion in India

Rahul Govind

· Jan 31, 2024 · 08:30 am

Why have most former colonies never officially sought reparations?

Manjari Chatterjee Miller, The Conversation

· Dec 08, 2023 · 10:00 pm

What the politics of Rishi Sunak, Suella Braverman and Priti Patel say about diaspora identity

Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, The Conversation

· Nov 21, 2023 · 10:00 pm

A Briton clicked these rare images of Kathmandu at a time when Nepal didn’t let in most foreigners

Susan Haris

· Nov 19, 2023 · 10:00 pm

Delhi Durbars, ‘Kaiser-e-Hind’: How the British appropriated Mughal symbols to cement their rule

Rana Safvi

· Oct 29, 2023 · 11:30 am

Give dogs a cup of tea every day: Travel advice from a ‘celebrated’ 19th-century writer

Margaret Makepeace

· Oct 15, 2023 · 07:30 pm

‘Jallianwala Bagh will be immortal in the world’: Publications the British deemed seditious

John O'Brien

· Sep 11, 2023 · 11:30 am