Not remembering Plassey
A combination of colonial mythmaking and contemporary lack of historical rigour have left the Battle of Plassey entirely forgotten, even on its 250th anniversary.
Sankar Ray | Aug 12, 2007
Nations out of fantasy
Modern Southasia’s ‘cartographic anxiety’ is traceable directly to colonial-era machinations. It is time for the region’s people to make their own decisions about how to define their territories.
Atul Mishra | Aug 12, 2007
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