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History Revisited
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
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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
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William Hunter: The Scottish historian who chronicled the horrors of Bengal and Orissa famines
Hunter drew parallels between the famines of 1866 and 1770 in ‘The Annals of Bengal’.
Ayesha Mukherjee
· Sep 20, 2020 · 07:30 pm
Gyan Chaupar to Snakes and Ladders: How a game about a karmic journey became a plaything for kids
The South Asian versions of the game had their roots in the Bhakti Movement.
Souvik Mukherjee
· Sep 15, 2020 · 09:30 pm
Who was Anthony Firinghee? Remembering the Portuguese-origin singer who is part of Bengali folklore
Hensman Anthony rose as a wandering poet singer, or kabiyaal, at a time when such performing arts were considered low caste.
Arup K Chatterjee
· Sep 09, 2020 · 06:30 pm
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta: ‘Put some dreams, magic, reality into a glass and shake it. That’s my cinema’
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How the translation of a Bengali play led to a British priest being convicted for libel in 1861
Political dramas, like this one about the Indigo Revolution, prompted the British Raj to impose censorship measures on theatre.
Lesley Shapland
· Sep 06, 2020 · 07:30 pm
How a Socialist member of the Tata family got elected to the British Parliament in the 1920s
Despite a background in ‘dhandho’, Shapurji Saklatvala had extreme left views and made unusual life choices on his political path.
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· Sep 03, 2020 · 06:30 pm
For those delegitimising Tippoo Saëb, an important lesson from his emissaries’ trip to 1788 France
Tipu was once seen as one of the few Indian statesmen who could potentially restore a healthy balance of power in Indian and European politics.
Arghya Bose
· Aug 31, 2020 · 03:30 pm
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