Indian Leaders

India

Membership

“Some say that the first Jews sailed here on King Solomon’s ships”: Kavita Puri on India's long Jewish history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Michael Wood on an astonishing Hindu pilgrimage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

William Dalrymple (Photo by David Hartley/Shutterstock)

Membership

“Like ancient Greece, India is one of the seedbeds of civilisation” | William Dalrymple on putting India back at the centre of global history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Michael Wood"The making of our new world began in China just over 40 years ago". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Kavita Puri's hidden histories: "I wish that there was no need for specialist history months". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 14th-century depiction of a lady and youth playing a game of draughts (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Membership

War and pieces: 5 games from history that were about much more than fun. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Video podcastIndian experiences in WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Joya Chatterji, emeritus professor in the history of modern south Asia at the University of Cambridge (Photo by Abhishek Bali)

20th Century

Joya Chatterji on 20th-century south Asia“The nation is a very novel idea, and imposing it on millions of people is hard work”

Historian Simon Schama, 2015 (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

Membership

Simon Schama“Humans are a marvel of ingenuity, yet we seem to exist in this great pond of primitive terror and paranoia”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Police disperse a mob attacking a Hindu temple in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the violence of Direct Action Day, 1946

20th Century

Why we should remember…Direct Action Day

A refugee family in a camp in Pakistan after the partition of British India in 1947

Membership

Enduring trauma: the legacy of partition. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

The partition of India: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Kavita Puri"Many south Asian diasporic families don’t know of their First World War links". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Simone Ashley as Kate Sharma in Bridgerton, next to a Regency portrait of Kitty Kirkpatrick.

Georgian

Inspiring Bridgerton: the real South Asian women in Regency-era England

A follower is reflected on a framed photograph of Bhimrao Ambedkar

Membership

Bhim Rao Ambedkar: India’s 'untouchable' hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

How Hindustan became India. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

Membership

India’s Suffragettes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photograph of the England team that faced Australia at the Oval in the 1896 Ashes series

Membership

Batting for the British Empire: how Victorian cricket was more than just a game. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

The history hidden in British heritage sites. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Membership

Revising the Raj. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Representations of digits from the ninth century, 11th century and the present day

Medieval

Digital revolution: the evolution of Hindu-Arabic numerals

Membership

The untold story of India’s WW2 prisoners of war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of Queen Victoria

Victorian

Queen Victoria: how and why did she become Empress of India?

English cavalry attacking the Sikh at the Battle of Aliwal

Membership

Victoria the warrior queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava during the Crimean War

Victorian

Victorians and war: which conflicts were fought during the Victorian era?

Membership

How historians helped build the British empire. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Muslim women embrace after Ramadan ends, 2012

Membership

"Does every generation have to prove itself in Britain?" Kavita Puri on the experiences of South Asians in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Membership

Was the 1990s a golden age for British South Asians?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An East India Company official riding on an elephant

Tudor

The East India Company: how a trading corporation became an imperial ruler

You're currently on page 1

Next Page