colonialism
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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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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
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‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’: Amitav Ghosh links the colonial desire for profit to neoliberal gluttony
Michiel Baas
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Tattoos were common in the ancient world. It is colonialism that stigmatised them
Allison Hawn, The Conversation
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How colonialism has left countries poor and dependent on fossil fuels
Patrick Greiner, The Conversation
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Britain’s fixation with Suez Canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade
Jonathan Parry, The Conversation
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A hundred years ago, a fiery speech in Uttarakhand escalated the protests against forced labour
Shekhar Pathak
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What swaraj meant to Gandhi – and why the government wants to bury that vision of freedom
Apoorvanand
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In a 19th-century Burmese album, a story of revenge, a failed coup and a long-forgotten prince
Craig Campbell
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In these Bhojpuri folk songs, forgotten tales of Indian indentured workers in British colonies
Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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In the 1820s, a British movement to quit sugar accelerated the end of slavery in the West Indies
Tom Zoellner, The Conversation
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The mystery of an East India Company ship that was in two places at the same time
Matt Griffin
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How Seringapatam inspired the name of an English official’s family for 260 years
Karen Stapley
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Sounds of resistance: How the radio fuelled the revolution in colonial Angola
Marissa J Moorman, The Conversation
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‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths
Daniel Cook, The Conversation