The exotic, the respectable, and the vulnerable: How the coloniser’s photographs saw Indian women

Hardik Brata Biswas

· Feb 14, 2025 · 01:30 pm

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

John O'Brien

· Sep 11, 2023 · 11:30 am

‘Burn your drawings of the Taj as no pencil can ever represent anything half so beautiful’

Nicole Ioffredi

· Aug 25, 2023 · 07:30 pm

The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer

Roshan Abbas

· Apr 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

From India and Canada’s Quebec to the Netherlands, what does the metaphor of ‘slavery’ disguise?

Ajay Gandhi

· Jan 22, 2023 · 11:30 am

Daggers drawn: How contracts in Western India were guaranteed in blood 300 years ago

Leah Verghese

· Jan 07, 2023 · 11:30 am

How the princely states, used by Britain to consolidate its empire, faded into obscurity

Sarath Pillai

· Nov 24, 2022 · 11:30 am

Podcast: From sea channels to gas-powered lights – 300 years of ambitious, unbuilt Mumbai projects

Dinyar Patel

· Nov 23, 2022 · 11:30 am

How Lydia Muttulakshmi found freedom and her happily ever after, in 19th century Bangalore

Ramjee Chandran

· Nov 13, 2022 · 11:30 am

When a British widow petitioned the India Office for financial help in 1868

Margaret Makepeace

· Sep 06, 2022 · 09:30 pm

Amidst UK heatwave, a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers

Arun Kumar

· Jul 21, 2022 · 11:30 am

Why tinkering with the traditions of the armed forces is adventurism best avoided

Lt Col (Retd) JS Sodhi

· Jan 29, 2022 · 09:00 am

Roshani Begum: A dancer from Tipu Sultan’s court who rebelled against the British

Jennifer Howes

· Nov 14, 2021 · 01:30 pm

How historian Vikram Sampath uses decolonisation rhetoric to make Hindu domination sound reasonable

Akash Bhattacharya

· Nov 13, 2021 · 09:00 am

A Scottish graveyard in Kolkata reveals the untold stories of colonial women in India

Sayan Dey, The Conversation

· Jun 18, 2021 · 01:30 pm

A British Army officer’s wife’s account of a route march in colonial India

Margaret Makepeace

· Feb 25, 2021 · 09:30 pm

How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India

Mitra Sharafi

· Aug 10, 2020 · 11:30 am

In the lockdown, a reminder of the missing histories of women at work

Aparna Kapadia

· Apr 27, 2020 · 07:30 am

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

John O'Brien

· Mar 26, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Rudolf von Leyden: The German-born cartoonist who became Bombay’s top art critic in the 1930s

Mollie Arbuthnot

· Dec 16, 2018 · 01:30 pm