Topic: 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.