colonial India

The Open Skies of History

Makarand R Paranjape

What Walter Benjamin helps us understand about India’s ravaged past

Bribery and Betrayal

Minhaz Merchant

Haunted by the ghosts of Mir Jafar and Robert Clive

The Foreign Angle

Abhilasha Ojha

Rediscovering Colonial India through forgotten artists

Snapshots of History

Priyanka Sacheti

The colonial past of India through postcards

The Crown and India

Kaveree Bamzai

Hindi movies celebrate the longest-reigning Queen but condemn her empire

The First Draft

Zareer Masani

An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions

The Colonials

Shehan Karunatilaka

A story

Imperial Inheritance

Zareer Masani

Has the empire been the default model for global governance?

A Courtesan’s Tale

Aditya Mani Jha

A journalistic exercise on tawaifs, which also provides a history of sexuality, secularism and ‘propriety’ in India

Stripping Mountbatten’s Halo

Kaveree Bamzai

Enough thorns in The Crown to nail India’s last Viceroy

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colonial India

The Open Skies of History

Bribery and Betrayal

The Foreign Angle

Snapshots of History

The Crown and India

The First Draft

The Colonials

Imperial Inheritance

A Courtesan’s Tale

Stripping Mountbatten’s Halo

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