A fascinating discussion of Indira Gandhi’s political career from the late 1960s to her assassination in 1984, linking the changes in India's democracy to her leadership. Using the concept of…
The “Ancient India” exhibition now on show at the British Museum in London is merely the flipside, or perhaps even an implicit legitimation, of the trauma narrative … that is the overriding…
The ASI’s lack of autonomy, professional management, and financial independence undermines its credibility as an expert body. Its effectiveness is compromised by political control. Granting the ASI…
Indian and American trysts with protectionism serve as bookends for long-running critiques of globalisation, from the perspective of both poverty and plenty, respectively.
Many students today have a negative view of Gandhi, based on a slanted representation that is widely prevalent online. It is challenging but fruitful to explore these views and expose students to a…
‘Manu Pillai has the skill to pull arguments, hypotheses, theories, & anecdotes from a number of vast & varied sources. He then arranges them seamlessly in a composite narrative that reminds…
An ode to a “forgotten” India which needs to be given its rightful place in a Euro-American-centric globe ends up replacing one form of cultural supremacy with another. The obsession with an original…
The underground Congress Radio was a story of plucky young nationalists challenging foreign rule during the Quit India Movement and contesting colonial control of the airwaves.
Debates amongst 18th and 19th century Muslim scholars on appropriate boundaries for friendship and intimacy with Hindus were sparked by the new political realities of colonial rule and fears of…
The foreign minister's newest book isn't the rich chronicle of how the ministry punches above its weight. That its uninspired prose isn't called out reveals much about the nation'…
