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British Raj

The Post-Imperial Hangover

Roderick Matthews

Britain did not take easily to its diminished status after 1947. Britons loved the men that India had made of them. India held mythic status in the minds of upper-class Brits. Nothing quite like that has appeared to take India’s place

The Phantom Invasion

How British panic at the Japanese threat aggravated Indian suffering in 1942

The Power of Absence

In the Elizabethan code of leadership, unspoken words and unshown emotions could move a people

Calcutta, As It Was

Lord Curzon’s enduring monument to the British Raj

Raj in India

Through the prism of Woke battles

David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’

S Prasannarajan in Open Conversation with David Gilmour, English historian
 

Economic Lessons From the Raj

The myth of colonial plunder

Empire Building

A majestic retelling of the Raj from the vantage point of the rulers

Master Picture Perfect

The colour philosophy of Raghubir Singh was influenced by his interest in traditional Indian art

A requiem for our first car

With the demise of the Ambassador goes the last symbol of the Nehruvian Age

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