When Australians abandoned their beloved Chinese green tea for Indian black tea

Before the 1880s, Chinese green tea had 90% and Indian black tea 10% of the Australian market. By 1900, the proportions were reversed.

Nicholas Martland

· Aug 05, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Thugs: The Indian history of the word that Donald Trump used to describe George Floyd protesters

The English colonisers crafted narratives of a demonic cult, ‘thuggee’, to justify their iron-fisted rule.

S Shankar

· Jun 09, 2020 · 01:30 pm

How Seringapatam inspired the name of an English official’s family for 260 years

The story begins with Captain John Norris taking charge of fortification reforms in the town.

Karen Stapley

· May 24, 2020 · 08:30 pm

Politics, revelry and massacres: East India Company logs reveal what happened on trade ships

Entries between the 1600s and 1800s record finances, weather patterns and life at sea.

Susannah Gillard

· May 23, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Nobel laureate Ronald Ross discovered how malaria spreads during his time in the British Indian Army

‘With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds,’ he wrote upon his discovery.

David Moran

· Jan 21, 2020 · 08:30 pm

How an Englishman who loved late-night parties died a Muslim saint in Pakistan

A shrine in Pakistan’s Hyderabad tells the unusual story of Archibald Dudley Ellicott.

Furqan Hyder Shaikh

· Dec 07, 2019 · 01:30 pm

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

In the mid-1930s the telephone system only linked the major urban centres.

John O'Brien

· Mar 26, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Photos trace the decay of Lucknow’s famed Dilkusha Palace after the 1857 revolt

The majestic country house has long been assumed to have been shelled during the siege, but old albums tell a slightly different tale

Swati Chattopadhyay

· Nov 29, 2018 · 08:30 pm

‘Baghdad in British Occupation’: Stamps show how control of the city went from Ottomans to Britain

Instead of trashing them, the British forces decided to use these spoils of war with an overprint.

Ula Zeir

· Sep 22, 2018 · 08:30 pm

When British officials sought pensions for select residents of Colaba after annexing the region

For the British, the occupation of the princely state in the present-day Raigad district had some unintended consequences.

John O'Brien

· Aug 20, 2018 · 01:30 pm

When an East India Company official was gifted an elaborate candelabra from his ‘friends in Panjab’

Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence was given the present when he took up another post in Rajasthan.

Malini Roy

· Aug 15, 2018 · 11:30 pm

When a British officer wrote to London requesting financial aid for poor Indian women in Syria

Since 1926, the Consulate had been responsible for making cash payments to destitute British Indian subjects living in Syria, but funds were drying up.

Louis Allday

· Jun 12, 2018 · 01:30 pm