‘Gujarati Muslim Communities in Colonial Mumbai’ event explored the contribution of prominent families in the early 20th century, and their business interests from glassware, opium to silk to shipping.
Michel Danino headed the committee behind the drafting of the NCERT social science textbook, which has sparked a controversy over the representations of Maratha & Mughal rulers.
Punkah' is a colonial-era anglicisation of the Hindustani term pankha, which referred to handheld fans. Punkah-pullers were made to work in deliberately uncomfortable conditions.
If the latest cohort of writers is anything to go by, it seems like colonisation continues to have an existential hold, particularly over British-Indian authors.
Published by HarperCollins India, ‘The Other Mohan in Britain's India Ocean Empire’ will be released on 15 November on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.
Cow-vigilante killings, often linked to Hindu nationalism, highlight an ongoing fracture in Indian society shown by riots of 1893 and others that followed.
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.
Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
Gujarati Muslims also wholeheartedly supported the Muslim League and the Pakistan Movement. MA Jinnah was a Gujarati after all.
Unfortunately, once Partition happened, most Gujarati Muslims did not migrate to Pakistan and preferred to stay back in India. Which is very surprising given that Pakistan was only a few kilometers away.
So, they campaigned for a separate Muslim homeland and got it but did not relocate there. And now, they claim to be patriotic Indians.
Gujarati Muslims also wholeheartedly supported the Muslim League and the Pakistan Movement. MA Jinnah was a Gujarati after all.
Unfortunately, once Partition happened, most Gujarati Muslims did not migrate to Pakistan and preferred to stay back in India. Which is very surprising given that Pakistan was only a few kilometers away.
So, they campaigned for a separate Muslim homeland and got it but did not relocate there. And now, they claim to be patriotic Indians.