Pakistan’s public archives are failing the country’s people and history, and private archives can only do so much.
If palm leaf inscriptions can be saved from rodents, insects, the forces of nature and deliberate destruction, they can paint vivid pictures of the history of the Syrian Christians in Kerala.
Archaic conservation methods are themselves hastening the deterioration of fragile archival material in India.
A series of articles on the state of archiving in Southasia.
Ranabir Samaddar’s new book traces the failures of West Bengal politics over the last four decades, but sees revolution where there has been none.
Shashank Kela’s book on Adivasi history contextualises and re-evaluates their current struggles
A colonial experiment in ethnographic photography offers a rare glimpse into Southasia’s communities circa the 19th century
India needs to own its historical secularism, rather than reject it as an alien concept, to move the country towards more just governance.
Perry Anderson’s ‘The Indian Ideology’ bores through the orthodoxies of Indian nationalist history.
A recently unearthed diary brings a fresh perspective to the lesser-known British foray into what we now call Nepal.
Tales of love and loss from the heyday of Portuguese rule in Kochi.
History is, by and large, written by the victor. It is a tale of kings and queens, of their loves and conquests. Sahir Ludhianvi, in his celebrated poem 'Taj
