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    Hello from the other side: A map shows telephone connectivity in India in 1934

    John O'Brien
    · Mar 26, 2019 · 08:30 pm
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    Mollie Arbuthnot
    · Dec 16, 2018 · 01:30 pm
  • ‘Their toil and sacrifices’: Why Mushirul Hasan (1949-2018) wrote about prisoners in colonial India

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

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    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

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  • Photos: A book on British rule in India, banned and held seditious, was still widely translated

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    Pragya Dhital
    · Oct 07, 2017 · 11:30 pm
  • In images: How photography evolved in India, from 1857 to the 21st century

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    Maria Thomas, qz.com
    · Oct 04, 2017 · 03:30 pm
  • A 53-foot scroll tells the story of the 1857 mutiny (from the British perspective)

    A 53-foot scroll tells the story of the 1857 mutiny (from the British perspective)

    Swati Chattopadhyay
    · Aug 11, 2017 · 07:30 pm
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