British imperialism

Forged In Fire

Siddharth Singh

The foundational violence that accompanied the formation of India as a modern nation-state

Imperial Inheritance

Zareer Masani

Has the empire been the default model for global governance?

How India Became British India

Ullekh NP

The Battle of Plassey contributed to the making and unmaking of empires

The Case of the Rickshaw Coolie Murder

MJ Akbar

How two unrelated incidents in imperial Simla helped end the British Empire

The Malabar Angle

Madhavi Thampi

A singular fight against the Empire

Jawaharlal Nehru hailed the Amritsar Congress as the first ‘Gandhi Congress’. It was in 1919 that the young Jawaharlal became Gandhi’s lieutenant and organised relief work in the Punjab. Thus began one of the most critical and longest political partnerships of modern India

Anita Anand: Beyond Myth and Misunderstanding

Nandini Nair

Anita Anand creates a compelling portrait of Udham Singh, the avenger of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. The author in conversation with Nandini Nair

Many Faces of the Massacre

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Saurav Dutt, author and political analyst, is out with a new work Garden of Bullets. He writes about the importance of revisiting the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on its 100th anniversary