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The human consequences of colonial cartography explored in a recent book
Culture
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The complexities of addressing the past while decolonising museums
Literature
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Imagining homeland through Kipling and his contemporaries in colonial Bengal
Rohit Chakraborty
History
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Essay
France’s troubled obsession with India
Blake Smith
History
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Commentary
Three London exhibitions grapple with ways to confront the legacy of the British Empire
Sidin Vadukut
History
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What a critical biography—still unwritten—of Thomas Babington Macaulay would tell us about ourselves
Aseem Shrivastava
History
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News
How the Indian Railways Became Integral to the Growing Nationalism in the Independence Era
Arup Chatterjee
Politics
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The Lede
Residents of a small district in Andhra Pradesh vote in France’s presidential election
Swati Sanyal Tarafdar
Environment
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Anthropocene and Empire
Stacey Balkan
History
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Commentary
India's myopic approach to recovering the Kohinoor
Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu
Film
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Essay
India in early non-fiction film
Uday Bhatia
Sports
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Commentary
How profit trumped passion in the beautiful game
Shougat Dasgupta
History
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The Lede
An alliance of Caribbean nations demands reparations for the historic offences of slavery
Debika Ray
Literature
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Books
Rediscovering Rumer Godden's Indian novels
Aamer Hussein
Law
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A rich account of the struggles behind ideas of citizenship in India
Rohit Chopra
History
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Books
The tangled histories that have shaped today’s great eastern metropolises
Girish Shahane
Politics
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Books
What did Ashoka, Shah Jahan and the Buddha mean to modern India's founding fathers?
Karuna Mantena
History
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Reportage
How John and WH Auden captured the Himalayas during the twilight of the British Raj
Deborah Baker
History
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Books
In his most ambitious book yet, Partha Chatterjee discusses how imperialism laid the groundwork for norms and practices of governance that are still with us
Gyan Prakash
History
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Essay
When Paris Met the Mahatma: A look back at Gandhi’s visit to the City of Light, and the complex confrontation between his philosophy and European modernity
Mira Kamdar
Business
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Reportage
The firm that once colonised India is now owned by an Indian businessman. Can Sanjiv Mehta turn history on its head—and make a tidy profit in the process?
Salil Tripathi
Sports
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Essay
India’s nascent diving industry has what it needs to make it world-class. Everything is also in place for it to destroy the environment.
Adam Jadhav
Sports
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The Lede
The 21st winter Olympiad is the first in history to be co-hosted by aboriginals. What do they get out of it?
Arno Kopecky
