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How did European merchant companies trading in Indian handmade textiles impact colonial history?

Ebeltje Hartkamp-Jonxis
· Jan 10, 2023 · 11:30 am
A historian closely studies the violence and coercion that Britain used to colonise India

Amar Farooqui
· Jan 09, 2023 · 08:30 am
The lost tale of a Goan goldsmith in Lisbon and what it says about Portugal’s colonial conquests

Ajay Gandhi
· Sep 25, 2022 · 11:30 am
Watch: Indigenous Australian news anchor demands apology from the British monarchy for colonialism

Scroll Staff
· Sep 14, 2022 · 11:46 am
‘Memsahibs’: How British women negotiated food and fear (and love and life) in colonial India

Ipshita Nath
· Aug 03, 2022 · 08:30 am
Amidst UK heatwave, a reminder of how British colonials exploited ‘punkah-walas’ in India’s summers

Arun Kumar
· Jul 21, 2022 · 11:30 am
Not just the first Thanksgiving, US should also mark what happened in Virginia four months later

Peter C Mancall, The Conversation
· Nov 24, 2021 · 09:30 pm
‘The Nutmeg’s Curse’: Amitav Ghosh links the colonial desire for profit to neoliberal gluttony

Michiel Baas
· Nov 14, 2021 · 08:30 am
Tattoos were common in the ancient world. It is colonialism that stigmatised them

Allison Hawn, The Conversation
· Sep 23, 2021 · 11:30 pm
How colonialism has left countries poor and dependent on fossil fuels

Patrick Greiner, The Conversation
· Jun 30, 2021 · 11:30 pm
Britain’s fixation with Suez Canal was as much about controlling Egypt as it was about global trade

Jonathan Parry, The Conversation
· Apr 03, 2021 · 07:30 pm
A hundred years ago, a fiery speech in Uttarakhand escalated the protests against forced labour

Shekhar Pathak
· Jan 12, 2021 · 07:30 am
What swaraj meant to Gandhi – and why the government wants to bury that vision of freedom

Apoorvanand
· Oct 03, 2020 · 07:30 am
In a 19th-century Burmese album, a story of revenge, a failed coup and a long-forgotten prince

Craig Campbell
· Aug 04, 2020 · 09:30 pm
In these Bhojpuri folk songs, forgotten tales of Indian indentured workers in British colonies

Anuradha Nagaraj, Thomson Reuters Foundation
· Aug 03, 2020 · 01:30 pm
In the 1820s, a British movement to quit sugar accelerated the end of slavery in the West Indies

Tom Zoellner, The Conversation
· Jul 15, 2020 · 09:30 pm
The mystery of an East India Company ship that was in two places at the same time

Matt Griffin
· Jun 29, 2020 · 07:30 pm
How Seringapatam inspired the name of an English official’s family for 260 years

Karen Stapley
· May 24, 2020 · 08:30 pm
Sounds of resistance: How the radio fuelled the revolution in colonial Angola

Marissa J Moorman, The Conversation
· Dec 05, 2019 · 11:30 pm
‘Robinson Crusoe’ 300 years on: Daniel Defoe’s unreliable narrative set up enduring colonial myths

Daniel Cook, The Conversation
· Nov 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm