This essay explores the history of princely patronage to sports in colonial India and argues that the sporting field allowed a hybrid princely culture to evolve. Scholarship on colonial sports has focused either on the diffusion of British principles of…
The Covid-19 pandemic is the most severe disruption experienced worldwide since structural adjustment and liberalisation of economies in the 1990s. Indian cities have been unsettled to an extent that happened never before since independence. Reverse migration of millions of urban…
Contesting the views of various religious denominations of Christians and Muslims, Mirza Gulam Ahmad wrote a pamphlet titled Razz-iHaqaiyat (The Truth). It was written in reply to the derogatory remarks made by the Ahl-i-Hadith sect in response to the affirmations…
Understanding how a particular society comprehends, construes and represents love is significant from the point of view of cultural, emotional and literary history. Love has been a prominent theme in Sanskrit literature\ from the earliest times. Often referred to as…
Suranjan Das and Achintya Kumar Dutta (eds.), Dreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal: Cholera, Malaria and Smallpox, A Documentation, Delhi: Primus, 2021, pages i–viii+397, Rs 1250. Rohan Deb Roy and Guy N.A. Attewell, Locating the Medical: Explorations in South Asian History,…
As lead article for this issue, we carry the text of the annual S.C. Mishra Memorial Lecture delivered by Mridula Mukherjee, which examines the historical antecedent of peasant protests in the Punjab, over four decades prior to India’s Independence. Strongly…
As I speak, the kisans of Punjab, as well as of other parts of India, are engaged in what they see as a life and death struggle with the Government of India. For them, it is a struggle not only…
The currency question engaged a cross-section of interests in colonial India – importers, exporters, industrialists and farmers, as also the governments in British India and in Great Britain – making it a topic of rigorous debate in the society of…
The social reform movement initiated by male intellectuals in nineteenthcentury Andhra had a positive impact on women. It led to the emergence of a women’s movement in colonial Andhra from the dawn of the twentieth century. Women became conscious of…
It was a sunny afternoon on 29 December 1970 on the campus of the University of Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) as established in 1956 but renamed Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya on 7 June 1983 (to honour the well-known valorous Gond Queen of…