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British Influence on Indian Holidays: How Colonial Rule Shaped Modern

historified February 3, 2026

-Prachurya Ghosh Introduction: Time as a Colonial Inheritance When people think about British influence on India, they usually imagine railways, English education, legal systems, or political institutions. Very few think about holidays. Festivals feel ancient, emotional, and rooted in religion or tradition. Diwali, Eid, Durga Puja, Pongal, Baisakhi—these seem untouched by colonial rule. Yet one […]Read More

Asian history Medieval history

Razia Sultan: The Woman Who Defied the Throne of Men

historified February 3, 2026

-Prachurya Ghosh The World That Never Imagined Her Razia Sultan was born around 1205 CE into a political system that had no conceptual space for her future. The Delhi Sultanate was still in its infancy, barely three decades old, and already marked by instability, violence, and elite rivalry. Unlike ancient Indian monarchies rooted in myth […]Read More

Asian history Modern history

Troilokyo: Colonial India’s First Documented Female Serial Killer

historified February 2, 2026

-Oishee Bose A Woman Made Dangerous: Crime, Gender, and Survival in Colonial Calcutta The usual narrative point to Jack the Ripper as the world’s earliest and most infamous serial killer. A careful look at colonial records and detective memoirs shows that at least seven years before the London murders, a woman in Calcutta named Troilokyo […]Read More

Ancient history Asian history

Umaid Bhavan Palace: A History of Royal outlook and Eternal

historified January 30, 2026

-Aritra Biswas Introduction: A Palace Made of Purpose Umaid Bhavan Palace on high of Chittar Hill in Jodhpur, is one of the last grand royal palaces in India. This palace developed unlike most of the historic forts and palaces, which were constructed in defense or lavish display, and had a different motive which was to […]Read More

Asian history Ancient history

Rediscovering the Buddha’s Heirlooms: The Piprahwa Relics Return Home

historified January 30, 2026

~Debashri Mandal In late 1898, British engineer William Claxton Peppé was overseeing estate work in Piprahwa (present-day Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, near the India-Nepal border) when his team accidentally uncovered a buried stupa. Excavating the mound revealed a soapstone reliquary urn inscribed in ancient Brahmi script—a message interpreted as confirming that the buried bones and […]Read More

African history Medieval history

Queen Nefertiti: The Woman Who Ruled Beside a Pharaoh

historified January 27, 2026

-Prachurya Ghosh Queen Nefertiti stands as one of the most fascinating and mysterious women of the ancient world. More than three thousand years after her lifetime, her face is known across the globe, yet the details of her life remain partly hidden behind time, politics, and deliberate erasure. Unlike many queens who lived quietly behind […]Read More

Ancient history Asian history

How Fort William Shaped Colonial Kolkata and British Power in

historified January 27, 2026

-Prachurya Ghosh Fort William stands today on the eastern edge of Kolkata looking calm almost gentle beside the wide flow of the Hooghly but this calm is deceptive because this ground was once one of the most violently contested pieces of land in South Asia. Before its stone walls rose before cannons and barracks this […]Read More

Ancient history Asian history

Badminton and the Making of a Global Sport

historified January 27, 2026

-Oishee Bose The sport of badminton is not a result of a single invention but the product of countless ordinary decisions made in different places. The game can be read as a social object: shaped by craft, by how people fixed broken gear, by local shops that stocked cheap frames, and by committees that argued […]Read More

Ancient history Asian history

The Pheran: A Kashmiri Tradition Woven in Wool

historified January 27, 2026

-Debashri Mandal What is Pheran? The pheran is a long, loose woolen gown with wide sleeves, a type of cloth traditionally worn by both men and women in Kashmir. It generally reaches the knees or ankles and is layered to trap warmth in the valley’s harsh winter. More than a mere clothing, the pheran has […]Read More

Ancient history Modern history

Acoustic Archaeology: When History Learns to Listen

historified January 22, 2026

-Prachurya Ghosh For most of its life, archaeology has been an art of looking. We examine walls and ask how high they once stood, we study tools and ask how they were held, we read bones to guess what kind of life wore them down. Yet for centuries a far simpler question went unasked, so […]Read More

British Influence on Indian Holidays: How Colonial Rule Shaped Modern

Razia Sultan: The Woman Who Defied the Throne of Men

Troilokyo: Colonial India’s First Documented Female Serial Killer

Umaid Bhavan Palace: A History of Royal outlook and Eternal

Rediscovering the Buddha’s Heirlooms: The Piprahwa Relics Return Home

Queen Nefertiti: The Woman Who Ruled Beside a Pharaoh

How Fort William Shaped Colonial Kolkata and British Power in

Badminton and the Making of a Global Sport

The Pheran: A Kashmiri Tradition Woven in Wool

Acoustic Archaeology: When History Learns to Listen

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