‘It is my duty to arrest you’: Gerald Wilson, a Bombay police officer who took Gandhi into custody

He served in the police during a turbulent time in modern Indian history.

John O'Brien

· Oct 28, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Give dogs a cup of tea every day: Travel advice from a ‘celebrated’ 19th-century writer

India became a major focus of Emma Roberts’s writing after her visit to the country in 1828.

Margaret Makepeace

· Oct 15, 2023 · 07:30 pm

‘Mrs Moore’ and a portrait of the Hyderabad Nizam’s powerful minister

How was the influential Raja Chandu Lal related to an East India Company officer and his wife?

Jennifer Howes

· Sep 30, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Long voyages, life in faraway lands: The women of the East India Company

There are relatively few records that describe the lives of Company women in any detail.

Mark Williams

· Sep 17, 2023 · 11:30 am

The tragic tale of General Edroos, who fought a losing battle for the princely state of Hyderabad

Though the commander’s face has become synonymous with the surrender of the princely state, there was a lot more to his story.

Zeenath Khan

· Sep 13, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘Jallianwala Bagh will be immortal in the world’: Publications the British deemed seditious

After the massacre in Amritsar, the colonial government issued a series of notifications for the seizure or suppression of ‘anti-British’ writing.

John O'Brien

· Sep 11, 2023 · 11:30 am

The tale of ‘Daku’ Sultana and his unlikely friendship with a British police officer

‘Freddy’ Young of the special dacoit force spent months hunting Sultana through the Kumaon forests, only to petition the British to spare his life in the end.

Roshan Abbas

· Apr 30, 2023 · 11:30 am

How Nazis and the ‘Little Führer of Bombay’ spread their web in war-time India

Their methods of pressurising the press, intimidating civil society members, well-funded propaganda and deceit are all too familiar.

Gautam Pemmaraju

· Apr 23, 2023 · 11:30 am

How an early version of UK’s national flag helped Bombay merchants grow their business

A pass for ‘Monnock Parsee’ and ‘Pendia Pattell’ sailing aboard the Tiger was issued at Fort Bombay carries an impression of the ‘Union Seale’.

Richard Scott Morel

· Apr 17, 2023 · 07:30 pm

In Thailand, the practice of using Talipot hand fans has survived thousands of years

The ‘Story of the Novice Monk’ suggests Talipot fans were used by monastics during the during the lifetime of Gotama Buddha over 2500 years ago.

Jana Igunma

· Apr 15, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Indian Railway’s plan to protect women passengers in the 19th century didn’t work out as it expected

Special carriages were constructed for ‘respectable native women’ in the 1800s. But by 1910, these carriages had fallen out of favour.

Margaret Makepeace

· Apr 01, 2023 · 07:30 pm

How Punjab came to dominate the British Indian army

The British considered Punjab ‘home of the most martial race of India’.

Muhammad Ali Shaikh, Dawn.com

· Mar 11, 2023 · 01:30 pm