Makhan Singh: The Punjabi radical who fought for freedom in not one but two countries

The trade unionist in Kenya recognised that to achieve freedom, it is important to first challenge the politics of indifference and segregation.

Arko Dasgupta

· Jan 23, 2021 · 06:30 am

Three times when the Mughal military juggernaut ran up against the immutable force of nature

There were two seasons the armies of the Mughal empire often dreaded: winter and monsoon.

Pratyay Nath

· Jan 11, 2021 · 11:30 am

When the East India Company sent a ship called New Year’s Gift to India

The vessel bearing gifts for Mughal Emperor Jahangir set sail from England in 1613.

Margaret Makepeace

· Jan 04, 2021 · 09:30 pm

What today’s politicians could learn from the relationship between Gandhi and his critic VSS Sastri

Though they were on opposite sides of the political spectrum, the two men would defend each other passionately against criticisms from their own camps.

Vineet Thakur

· Jan 02, 2021 · 11:30 am

When the music of Beethoven mingled with the music of Gandhi’s spinning wheel

In the year of Beethoven’s 250th birth anniversary, remembering how two Europeans brought together Gandhi and the German composer.

Sudheendra Kulkarni

· Dec 19, 2020 · 07:30 am

Muhammad Najib Khan, a Sufi soldier and manuscript collector in 18th-century southern India

Caught up in the conflict between the rivals of Hyderabad, the French and the East India Company, he was killed in the Battle of Ambur in 1749.

Ursula Sims-Williams

· Nov 28, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Why early feminists in India were accused of being puppets of the British

The contribution of women in the history of undivided India has been largely ignored.

Rafia Zakaria, Dawn.com

· Oct 31, 2020 · 01:30 pm

‘World was made for women also’: How a US doctor set up India’s first literary society for women

A doctor and reformer, Emma Brainerd-Ryder spoke up on child marriage and founded Bombay Sorosis for middle-class women of all castes.

Anu Kumar

· Oct 15, 2020 · 06:30 pm

How a suicide in Calcutta in 1800s sparked a debate on applying English laws in India

The East India Company wanted the law of forfeiture to apply in the colonies, which would have allowed a suicide victim’s property to pass to the Crown.

Matthew Waters

· Oct 12, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Richard Nixon and British colonialists both viewed Indian women through misogyny-tinted glasses

In the white male imagination, brown women’s sexuality is always available to them for purchase.

Rafia Zakaria, The Baffler

· Oct 05, 2020 · 07:30 pm

On Vidyasagar’s 200th birth anniversary, how do we recall the mass of contradictions that made him?

We need to interrogate the lives of people like Vidyasagar – and Vivekananda – for what they say about the structures out of which our present has taken shape.

Brian A Hatcher

· Sep 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

On Vidyasagar’s 200th birth anniversary, a look at how he bypassed religion to forge social reform

Did he reall entertain agnostic or atheistic ideas, as some have suggested?

Amiya P Sen, Sahapedia.org

· Sep 26, 2020 · 07:30 am