history

What the simplistic narratives on China’s advances in the Indian Ocean miss.

How epidemics shaped Southasia's legal history.

A defence of immigration on the grounds of history, economics and security.

A new book documents the forgotten history of tawaifs – or courtesans – in northern India.

Priyamvada Gopal’s book throws new light on transnational and class solidarities.

Corruption and inequality have remained key features of Myanmar’s post-democratic political economy.

One historian’s move away from history, and back into the real world.

Photo Kathmandu 2018 provided a much-needed snapshot of the history of feminist movement in Nepal.

A 19th-century travelogue from northern India challenges colonial orientalism.

ARCHIVE: The Kathmandu essayist on the history of ethnic hierarchy in modern Nepal (1992).