In colonial-era India, Afghans and Pashtuns were often seen in sharply different ways by Indians and the British. On one hand ...

In the Indian state of Kerala there stands a huge building shaped like a ship. Another has a large yellow star dominating its facade. Then there’s the pair of gigantic palms sprouting from a structure ...

Some colonial-era photographs did little, for instance, to conceal the paternalistic attitudes underpinning their production ...

The British left footprints across their far-flung colonial empire from Toronto to Yangon. But nowhere is there as vast and varied a collection of heritage architecture than in Kolkata. Thousands of ...

Understanding the Punkah and Its Operators The scorching summers of India, well-known among British society, attracted families of colonial officers to the subcontinent during British rule. At that ...

Still from “Panorama of Calcutta” (1899), the earliest extant film of India (screenshot via YouTube) The British Film Institute (BFI) has digitized and uploaded a major trove of rarely seen films from ...

When I was a child growing up in Kolkata, I would hear stories about the European colonisation of Bengal – the precolonial name of India’s West Bengal. These were selective narratives from a ...

Addressing the legacies of colonialism and slavery has been a prominent narrative throughout 2020. A number of calls to recognise, remove, rename, repatriate, and redress have underlined the extent to ...