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Tuesday, August 11, 2026
TopicColonial India

Topic: Colonial India

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.

Maharaja Ranjit Singh to Afghan nobles—19th-century India through a British woman’s eyes

The DAG exhibition ‘Princes & People of India: Portraits by Emily Eden’ will remain on display until 1 August. ‘No Western woman had such access’

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.

How the East India Company mapped India for control

Long before the 1881 Census, the East India Company spent decades attempting to turn massive land tracts into an ordered empire.

How ancient India tracked its population

Early rulers didn't care about counting individual heads just for fun—it was all about securing taxes and finding able-bodied soldiers.

Not ‘good coloniser’, France was an imperial force in India: Historian Robert Ivermee

At Delhi’s India International Centre, historian Robert Ivermee shifted the lens away from the British Raj, illuminating India’s lesser-known encounters with other European powers.

India is reviving gazetteers minus the colonial lens. Moradabad is leading the way

While British gazetteers focused largely on administration and revenue, the new exercise aims to create living records of culture, social change, and democratic life. It’s a tough task.

Why Dalits love Mahatma Macaulay

Robert Clive defeated India and didn’t question caste. Mahatma Macaulay envisioned India as a free nation and critiqued caste. That explains why Indians hate one more than the other.

Gujarati Muslims who built Bombay’s commerce—and carried it across the world

‘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.

How Kulwant Roy captured India’s transition to freedom

The photojournalist’s legacy was obscured for nearly thirty years between his death and the recovery of his negatives.

On Camera

India gold duty changed 8 times in 14 years. What this did to smuggling

India’s fluctuating policy regarding gold imports has oscillated between rates of 2 percent, 10 percent, 6 percent, and 15 percent, with each adjustment announced with confidence and subsequently reversed within a few years.

$92 mn to $609 mn: Andhra FDI inflows surged after Jagan-era slowdown, TDP credits policy reset

Data on FDI rise has become a political flashpoint, with Naidu govt projecting an investor-friendly turnaround while YSRCP leader says ‘unwarranted information’ provided in House.

And it’s official: India in talks with France to join 6th Gen fighter programme FCAS

In February this year, ThePrint reported that India is exploring the possibility of teaming up with France for co-development and co-manufacturing of the futuristic FCAS.

Guru RSS is cautioning shishya Modi govt. Bhagwat’s endorsement of Gen Z has an Indira lesson

It’s evident Bhagwat was watching from a distance and was worried about youth’s anger towards Modi govt. The first thing he did was to demolish any criticism of Gen Z protesters as anti-national.