The pursuit of the Southasian past
Moving beyond the colonial-era understanding of the history of the Subcontinent gives us a whole new way of looking at the Subcontinent´s past. This now includes not just the usual explorations of politics and economy, …
Romila Thapar | Jul 30, 2008
Women in Pants
The success of Pashto cinema seems to be credited to its largely non-Pashtun subject matter, including women in pants
Aurangzaib Khan | Jul 07, 2008
How little we will ever know
From faith to doubt and more: one historian's move away from history, and back into the real world. The context: the making of Bangladesh.
Afsan Chowdhury | Jul 06, 2008
Partition as conflict resolution
Partition didn´t stop in 1947. ´Internal partitions´ have increasingly become the knee-jerk approach to settling what are seen to be ethnic conflicts in the region.
Rita Manchanda | Jul 01, 2008
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Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast
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