Analysis

How the language of state-making in Pakistan contributes to the erasure of regional languages.

Why Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.

Do women politicians in high office in Southasia offer something different from their male counterparts?

How government intervention in Indian universities has undermined academic freedom.

How India’s top bureaucrats saw the end of the Emergency, and why it’s relevant today.

How prisons in contemporary India continue to follow the colonial handbook.

The 20th Amendment in historical perspective.

A bill before the Majlis risks depriving hundreds of Maldivian citizens of their right to reparations.

What the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 can tell us about contemporary border issues.

Recent India-China skirmishes in the Ladakhi valley revive conversation on how borders and their memories are constructed.