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New book explores how disease, medicine and race shaped British India

Published by HarperCollins India, In Sickness and in Death: How Faith, Medicine and Race Shaped British India by Ipshita Nath will be released on 20 August, on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

How the cholera epidemic put 19th century India on the global map

In 'In Sickness And In Death', Ipshita Nath studies how colonial India studied, managed, and interpreted various diseases and epidemics.

How the 1881 census redefined colonial rule in India

From hidden elders to uncounted infants, colonial enumerators faced widespread public distrust during the first all-India count.

How the 1872 census struggled to map India’s caste hierarchy

The first broad Indian census exercise in 1872 showed the reach of colonial knowledge, even as its data remained uneven and incomplete.

The lost history of 1857 runs through Delhi’s villages

To view the 1857 uprising solely through Delhi's Red Fort is to miss the crucial agrarian landscape that fed and shielded the rebellion.

The modest blouse: A colonial relic that still dictates Indian womanhood

Ironic that the folks far west removed the dead weight of corsets and long sleeves, but left a scar so deep on our skin that it still makes us afraid to show it.

India must create more Sarvepalli Radhakrishnans. And move on from Macaulay

Macaulay had total contempt for Indian literature and for Middle Eastern writing in Persian or Arabic. He was supremely confident that English schoolgirls are better informed than Indian scholars.

How do postal stamps show adivasis? The same way the British did

Birsa Munda is on many stamp covers – 1988 to 2023. There are none of Jaipal Singh Munda, member of India’s Constituent Assembly, Olympic gold medalist, and writer.

Railways weren’t Britain’s ‘gift’ to India—we paid with blood, sweat & humiliation

Lancashire cotton mill owners were eager to get access to the inland cotton-producing regions of India. Railway tracks penetrating into rural India would ensure this.

‘Tirunelveli riots’ was a high point of the Swadeshi movement. A shipping rivalry caused it

In ‘Swadeshi Steam’, AR Venkatachalapathy traces the journey of India’s first indigenous shipping company Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company and its founder VO Chidambaram Pillai.

On Camera

Stalking judges’ assets helps nobody. We must rethink how we audit our judges

Justice Yashwant Varma's resignation and guilty verdict sparked transparency calls. But public asset disclosure often scares future talent.

Gen Z prefers betting online, so casinos are reinventing the real-world experience

With Gen Z more likely to gamble online than visit casinos, operators are adding sports, spas, street food and social spaces to turn gaming venues into lifestyle destinations.

Finnish satellite giant ICEYE sets up India entity, plans local manufacturing for defence, intelligence

ICEYE builds microsatellites that are smaller, faster, and cheaper to produce. This allows satellites to be used in clusters, providing much faster and more accurate data.

Munir’s latest power grab is proof of his paranoia. Dictatorship and delusion go together

At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.