-Prachurya Ghosh Introduction: A Forgotten Woman of Empire Susanna Anna Maria occupies a distinctive yet largely forgotten position in the social history of colonial India. Known historically as Begum Johnson of Calcutta, she belonged to Read More
-Oishee Bose How did a rough Siberian peasant gain the trust of a mourning empress and grow into a man whose words could influence who entered and left governmental institutions? The answer is not in Read More
-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, Read More
-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 Read More
-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 Read More
-Oishee Bose For many observers in the mid-twentieth century, Japan presented a convincing image of social discipline: regimented schools, deferential workplaces, and a tightly policed public morality that valued conformity, hierarchy, and a narrowly circumscribed Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh For most of human history, language did not wait for ink. It rushed ahead, impatient, volatile, alive. People spoke faster than hands could move, faster than pens could scratch across stone, parchment, or Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh When Rolls-Royce began in 1904, there was obviously nothing about it that suggested inevitability. No grand destiny. No certainty that the name would one day be spoken in the same breath as absolute luxury. Read More
-Aritra Biswas Introduction: Counting Tools to Thinking Machines The history of computers is one of the most outstanding tracks of humanity. What once was a mere utilization of tools to help in counting and calculating, Read More
-Oishee Bose The story behind a Japanese-named railway station in the heart of Bengal In the tidal labyrinth of the Hooghly River, not far from Kolkata’s industrial fringe, there is a small cluster of Read More