-Oishee Bose Maps often seem reliable because they offer a clear and organized image of the world. A classroom map, a folded atlas, or a phone map seems to offer an objective view, and that appearance encourages people to accept what they see without asking why it looks that way. Transforming the round Earth into […]Read More
-Oishee Bose Most people conjure stories of resistance against slavery, the creative survival of diasporic communities, and drawn-out battles for rights and recognition when they consider Black history. We should give those tales our complete attention. However, Black histories also include other sorts of stories about political agency, kings and patrons, and cultural impact. An […]Read More
-Neha Garg Sujini embroidery is a work from Bihar. It is an expressive product of art in textile. It is given protection under the GI registration act. Usually it is quilt or bed spread. It is usually made of old clothes but now generally it is made of easily available fabric. Embroidery is done with […]Read More
-Chirag Peshawariya A warrior born from the heart of India that sent shocks down some of the mightiest courts and royal chambers, and the empires that opposed him (and watched him closely) made sure to never underestimate him once, let alone twice was Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of a new Maratha State, and one […]Read More
-Oishee Bose If you turn up at Tiretta Bazar early, you feel like you’ve stumbled into somebody’s memory. Steam climbs from aluminium steamers, a vendor nudges a bamboo basket across a wooden stall, a little kid tugs an elder toward a stall that smells of pork buns and moong dal, and the city’s different tongues […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Introduction: A Woman Who Defied Her Age In the story of late eighteenth-century India, one would indeed be remiss not to mention the extraordinary life and contributions of Begum Samru, a woman who defied almost every social, political and gendered norm of her time. Rising from extreme poverty to become one of the […]Read More
-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 the early generation of Eurasian Christian women who emerged in eighteenth-century Bengal, at a time when colonial society was still […]Read More
-Prachurya Ghosh Print culture refers to the complex system through which written texts are produced, circulated, consumed, and interpreted within society. It includes not only books and newspapers but also pamphlets, posters, journals, advertisements, and all other forms of printed material. The history of print culture is therefore not simply a technological story about the […]Read More
~ Debashri Mandal In 1872, British surveyor Alexander Cunningham uncovered a small clay seal at the ruins of Harappa. It showed a deeply incised bull (no hump) facing right, and above it six short symbols that he could not recognize as any known Indian script. “They are certainly not Indian letters,” Cunningham wrote – he […]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 a lone theatrical moment or a secret plan. It rests in a gradual collection of fear, confidence, belief, speculation, and […]Read More