East India Company
Returning spoils of colonial conquest
Forgotten manuscripts in European archives may hold important keys to Northeast India’s past.
Deepak Naorem | Oct 07, 2021
From frontier to boundary
What the Anglo-Gorkha War of 1814-16 can tell us about contemporary border issues.
Bernardo Michael | Aug 26, 2020
Before empire
How should we read the Europeans who wrote about Southasia before colonial domination?
Amanda Lanzillo | May 21, 2018
People of a Southasian past
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century.
The Editors | May 10, 2017
Taking on a behemoth
The life story of Katharine Gerrard Cooke (1695-1745) evokes the struggles faced by the early English pioneers in India. (Part 2)
N P Chekkutty | Feb 22, 2016
A massacre at the seaside
The life story of Katharine Gerrard Cooke (1695-1745) evokes the struggles faced by the early English pioneers in India. (Part 1)
N P Chekkutty | Feb 19, 2016
Hell on Ascension
The story of Cochin’s Robinson Crusoe – found guilty of sodomy and banished to Ascension Island.
N P Chekkutty | Mar 19, 2015
The life and letters of Elizabeth Draper
The world celebrated the tercentenary of writer Laurence Sterne (1713- 1768) in 2013. A tribute to the woman who inflamed his passions, Eliza, born in a remote south Indian village.
N P Chekkutty | Mar 13, 2014
People of a Southasian past
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century
The Editors | Jan 21, 2013
Diary of a disastrous campaign
A recently unearthed diary brings a fresh perspective to the lesser-known British foray into what we now call Nepal.
Thomas Bell | Dec 21, 2012
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The rare Indian foreign correspondent’s view of Pakistan
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India’s slow-burn affair with Israel heats up
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