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Why a Manipur border town is home to a large Tamil community
December 05, 2025 2:44 pm
A throwaway line in Family Man 3 opens a window into a century of movement between India and Burma—and how Moreh became home to thousands of Tamil-speaking families.
South Asians are facing a health crisis. Dr Mubin Syed traces it back to British rule
November 25, 2025 2:44 pm
In his new book, Dr Mubin Syed traces a line between colonial hunger and modern heart disease and diabetes across South Asia.
In Britain, the first memorial to a famine Bengal never forgot — and India never marked
November 21, 2025 1:51 pm
In 1943, Bengal was gripped by a famine that claimed nearly three million lives. Yet, unlike the wars and partitions that followed, this catastrophe has left behind no museum, no memorial, not even a plaque. At a recent memorial in Manchester, people gathered to remember what history has long chosen to forget — and to raise a stark question: why has South Asia never formally commemorated one of its deadliest tragedies?
How the practice of border-making began in America and reshaped the world
October 15, 2025 10:07 pm
The typical story that is often told is that Europeans invented borders and imposed them over everyone else. Interestingly, Europeans did not use borders within Europe first. They were first created in the colonial new world they encountered in America. Then on, borders have determined pretty much all kinds of human relations.
The Middle East was once part of British India — just not on official maps
August 14, 2025 7:50 am
It was an administrative transfer of power in 1947 that saw territories in the Gulf region change hands from the Indian Political Service to the Foreign Office in London.
How the first photos of Indian monuments wrote the history of India
September 12, 2024 10:44 am
The camera, right from the moment of its invention, was seen to be of immense practical value to the colonisers. A recent exhibition in Delhi by DAG shows how the first photographs of Indian monuments were instrumental in writing the history of India and creating disciplins of Indian archaeology, heritage and tourism.
P Thankappan Nair: The man who chronicled Kolkata — for little in return
June 20, 2024 5:34 pm
P Thankappan Nair, a Malayali who hardly knew Bengali well enough to write in it, has left behind about 40 books about the city
How the Jallianwala Bagh massacre changed the course of India’s freedom struggle
April 14, 2024 11:36 am
The shooting which killed over a thousand innocent Indians, marked somewhat of a turning point in India’s struggle for independence. Here is how.
The first-ever India Biennale to be held at the British era barracks of Delhi's Red Fort
October 13, 2023 1:29 pm
The inaugural India Art, Architecture & Design Biennale (IAADB), to be held from December 9-15, will feature seven "especially-curated" thematic displays located in three British-era barracks on the grounds of the Mughal-era monument, according to what official sources told PTI.
‘The Babu and The Bazaar’ at DAG celebrates art of 19th-Century Bengal
June 09, 2023 2:31 pm
Curated by art historian and scholar Aditi Nath Sarkar with Shatadeep Maitra, the show comprises works from the gallery collection, that also feature in an eponymous publication.
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