Nandshankar Mehta and his ‘Karan Ghelo’, like India’s history, illustrate that we are all heirs to rambling genealogies.
New book explores Bengali revolutionaries' unique ideology and methods in British-era Bengal prisons, challenging colonial ...
Think of colonial India, and the usual suspects emerge - Kolkata's mansions, Mumbai's forts, Chennai's boulevards, and ...
Wasika, from the Persian word for a written agreement, is a pension granted to the descendants and associates of the rulers ...
The highest railway station in India is Ghum Railway Station in Darjeeling, West Bengal. The railway station stands at 2,258 ...
The British first began wearing khaki during their occupation of India. The tan-colored tactical camouflage soon spread across the world. Originally the uniform of 19th century British soldiers in ...
In \"Forbidden Love\", the author journeys through 19th-century courtrooms, lock hospitals, and “eunuch registers” to uncover ...
Bestseller Ghosh (The Great Derangement) offers up a scintillating and kaleidoscopic vision of opium’s role in the past several centuries of global history. Centered mainly on events leading to the ...