British colonialism

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

The English Track Record

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

A traveller’s tale from colonial India

Unfair Play

Kishan S Rana

Where was Winston Churchill’s statesmanship when it came to India?

‘This idea of progress is one of the most terrible myths,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Nandini Nair

Amitav Ghosh talks about his new book that charts the transformative effect of the poppy on the making of the world in a conversation with

Churchill’s Bengal Famine

Minhaz Merchant

The killing of three million Indians is a story waiting to be retold

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British colonialism

Why Britain Is Broke

Seeking India

His Majesty’s Reparations

The Churchill Paradox

Pageant of History

Origin Story

The English Track Record

Unfair Play

‘This idea of progress is one of the most terrible myths,’ says Amitav Ghosh

Churchill’s Bengal Famine

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Why Britain Is Broke

Lawrence Bishnoi: The New Don

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‘There was a whole world in the ancient caves in the Deccan,’ says William Dalrymple

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