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British colonialism

The Fugitive’s Tryst with Destiny

Carlo Pizzati

As I travelled around India by retracing the steps of my great-uncle who landed here 80 years before I did, the irony struck me: here I was, an Italian in India by choice, chasing the ghost of a dear relative who had been brought to Bombay in chains in December 1940 by the British

Colonial Imprints

V Shoba

When textile labels chronicle the Raj legacy

The Politics of Refusal: Boycott and the Fabric of Indian Nationalism

V Shoba

From British cloth to Chinese apps, and now to cancelled holidays in Türkiye, Indians have used their wallets to make a political point

How Sardar Patel Averted an Attempted Siege of Delhi

Sandeep Balakrishna

The other side of freedom

Why Britain Is Broke

Minhaz Merchant

Spoils of colonial plunder do not last forever

Seeking India

Bhavya Dore

England’s first forays into the country and the lasting impacts

His Majesty’s Reparations

Minhaz Merchant

It’s time Britain paid the wages of transatlantic slavery

The Churchill Paradox

Zareer Masani

Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future

Pageant of History

Noor Anand Chawla

Visual depiction of three durbars brings out the colonial past of Delhi

Origin Story

Siddharth Singh

A recent book asks if India needs a new constitution

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